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...because doctors have been unable to inform men with any level of precision what their actual risk of death is from prostate cancer, fearful patients have often sought unnecessary surgery and radiation; fewer than 10% of patients who are diagnosed with prostate cancer at age 60 or older choose watchful waiting. "With this new evidence, doctors can give patients some quantifiable information so that together they can decide if it's more appropriate to forgo active treatment for now and just monitor their disease for any new developments," says Brooks, who was not involved in the study...
Still, prostate cancer remains the second most common cause of cancer death among men in the U.S., striking 1 in 6 men during their lifetime, according to the ACS. What researchers are now striving to determine - through new genetic technologies - is which cancers are aggressive and require invasive treatment, and which can be managed by waiting. Such advances could lead to not only true improvements in patient survival, but also major savings in health-care costs. "We are spending millions and millions of dollars on screening and treatment," says Lu-Yao. "It's not good for the individual...
...escorted out of the apartment building in Middletown and into a silver car. Neighbors leaned over the apartment building’s iron railings and cheered as police led him away. New Haven Police Chief James Lewis described Clark as a person of interest, not a suspect, in the death of 24-year-old Annie Le, whose body was found stuffed behind a wall in a campus research building Sunday, the day she was to be married. He said police were hoping to compare DNA taken from Clark’s hair, fingernails and saliva to more than 150 pieces...
Staff feelings are still raw over the death last summer of Charles Loftly, 60, after he was attacked during an overnight shift at Tryon Residential Center in Johnstown, N.Y., where he was the sole person watching over 10 kids. According to his union, Loftly responded to a resident's feigned vomiting, only to find himself assaulted by three others who smashed his head with a piece of wood they had ripped from a desk. A colleague in an adjoining wing helped foil the escape attempt, but Lofty suffered headaches for weeks. While out on leave, he had a stroke...
State administrators say the facilities want to continue justifying the need for detention to retain upstate jobs. But unions point to the case of Renee Greco, a 24-year-old supervisor in a halfway house in western New York, who was clubbed to death while playing cards with some of her charges. Her assailants, ages 17 and 18, have pleaded not guilty to charges of second- and first-degree murder, respectively...