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...menace of Islamic fundamentalism. Radical clerics who, according to the standards of the Western world, are not sufficiently educated or well versed in using sophisticated tools have managed to outsmart the world's best intelligence networks and governments. These clerics have upped the ante and cleverly spawned the cancer of hatred in the thoughts of the innocent young and the gullible common folk in Muslim countries around the globe. It is a psychological game that President George W. Bush has not yet grasped. The West needs to understand the psyches of the manipulators and the victims in Islamic countries. Preaching...
NEXT TO SKIN cancer, prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men--so common that a man in the U.S. is 33% more likely to get prostate cancer than a woman is to get breast cancer. Yet in many ways, treatment of prostate cancer lags behind that of breast, colon and brain cancer. That's why the Prostate Cancer Foundation last week issued a call for a new approach to the disease, which already afflicts 2 million American men and will strike 230,000 more this year...
These are confusing times for prostate-cancer patients and doctors alike. The field was rocked this summer when a study in the New England Journal of Medicine reported that the widely used PSA (prostate-specific antigen) test had a major problem: 15% of patients with scores low enough to be considered cancer free turned out to have prostate cancer, and 15% of those had aggressive, high-grade tumors. It now seems that the PSA's rate of increase over time may be a more valuable measure than the raw number itself. But doctors clearly need to develop better diagnostic tests...
Doctors also need to start talking to one another. I was surprised to learn that the various specialists who get involved in treating prostate cancer--urologists, radiation oncologists, medical oncologists--rarely consult with one another. The team approach has become standard in treating breast, colon and brain cancer, mainly because it works. "Having multidisciplinary care leads to a better outcome," says Carroll. His foundation emphasizes in particular that patients who are undergoing hormone therapy and have rising PSAs should consult a medical oncologist...
...American men contract prostate cancer at some point in their life. And although there is no shortage of famous people who have succumbed to the disease--punk rocker Johnny Ramone, who died at age 55 two weeks ago, immediately comes to mind--there are also plenty of prominent survivors, including John Kerry (who had his prostate removed) and Rudy Giuliani (who opted for radiation therapy). Both men are doing just fine...