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Breaking news: ‘Big win’-- Active Surveillance Becomes the Rule, Not the Exception and Fewer Men Being Diagnosed with L-R PCA

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By Howard Wolinsky, Editor, The Active Surveillor

Time for a victory lap.

Fewer of us are being diagnosed with low-risk prostate cancer, and more of those who are diagnosed are opting for Active S...

8 days ago
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Half of focal therapy patients fall outside recommended risk groups, Pitt researchers report in JAMA.

(Editor’s note: Do you know Prostate Cores, my newsletter where I cover other issues relating to PCa? Check out the story for the November issue about how patients wth advanced prostate cancer got the influential NCCN to expand their guidel...

10 days ago
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BREAKING: NCCN strengthens Active Surveillance endorsement to ‘strongly preferred,’ lengthens biopsy intervals, makes DREs optional

(Editor’s note: I know many of you prefer that I space out these columns. A steady barrage of AS news may overwhelm some of you; others want as much as you can get.

(I have been a professional news reporter for more than 50 years. I have a...

12 days ago
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Even if AI can improve prostate cancer risk prediction, will that improve patient outcomes?

By Howard Wolinsky, Editor, The Active Surveillor

Investigative journalist, crack photographer, and famed pickleball player Gary Schwitzer—an old friend of mine who ran CNN Health for many years—recently raised a question in his Substack n...

13 days ago
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Beyond the Valley of Gleason Scores, ‘rare’ histologies

By Howard Wolinsky, Editor, The Active Surveillor

Prostate cancer patients today are navigating a vocabulary that barely existed in everyday practice a decade ago.

Pathology reports now read like dispatches from a new frontier: cribrifor...

15 days ago
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