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...cancer [MEDICINE, April 1]. Many think it is a disease of older men, but there has been a very rapid increase in prostate cancer in younger men. I was 48 when I asked for a diagnostic prostate-specific antigen test, even though my physician at the time did not recommend that I consider a PSA until I was 50. The tumor that was discovered was large and aggressive, but I am hopeful that my surgery was in time. Currently, researchers are looking mainly at older patients. We also need to focus more attention on the diagnosis and treatment of younger...
...speak against routine screening for prostate cancer. While our clinic regularly tests for many diseases, we don't systematically screen for prostate cancer. We do recognize that prostate cancer is a serious health problem and accept the PSA as an adequately sensitive test. However, we don't recommend screening because there is no evidence that detection or treatment of prostate cancer in asymptomatic men improves their lives or reduces their risk of dying from the disease. There is no way to differentiate the thousands of prostate cancers that will cause problems from the millions that won't. For the great...
...Radio & TV Correspondents' Dinner in Washington [NOTEBOOK, April 1], but after I observed the negative media and political reaction, I concluded that the I-Man, my daily radio companion during my commute, had gone too far. After listening to a replay of his entire speech, however, I recommend that Imus be the required speaker at the event every year. Then, perhaps, media personalities and politicians at risk of exposure to his "aggressive" humor would take themselves less seriously and take the responsibilities of their public positions and standards of conduct more seriously. GILBERT W. SANBORN Weston, Connecticut...
Regardless of the details, the crux of the matter is simply that a shorter finals period means exams will be packed more closely together; this is likely to be detrimental even to those students who don't wind up with doubles or triples. So, we would like to recommend a solution which surprisingly was not even discussed at the CUE meeting. Shave an extra day off reading period. Everyone knows that reading period is a cosmic farce to begin with. A bloated 11 days long, reading period is simply a thinly disguised extension of the semester during which professors feel...
...news board will also recommend that Crimson editors who win such positions become deactivated...