Today I offer this titillating report from MedPage Today, together with its online video for your information.

Seemingly, differing points of view are held within the medical profession as to the best methodology to be used developing the most accurate diagnosis of prostate cancer and vis-a-vis; accuracy of the subjective prognosis. And not forgetting the very involved, varied and nerve-racking treatment options in each individual case, usually selected by the patient under the guidance and advice of the medical professional.

Perhaps of greater benefit to the medical professional it does seem to me that this tool, in giving some positive rationale to the doctor’s decision making process, will thereby giving some added comfort to the patient. We can but hope.

By Charles Bankhead, Staff Writer, MedPage Today
Published: September 23, 2008
Reviewed by Dori F. Zaleznik, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston.

BOSTON, Sept. 23 — A free, Internet-based prostate cancer risk calculator can provide clinicians with evidence-based information about the likelihood that a patient will develop metastatic disease and about the relative merits of the treatment options, developers of the program said here.

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