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Latest Issues

Can you slow your surveillance? Find out at the ASPI webinar on July 25.

By Howard Wolinsky, Editor, The Active Surveillor

On Saturday, July 25, 2026, at 12:00 PM Eastern Time, Active Surveillance Patients International will host an online program, “De-Intensifying Active Surveillance: Who Can Safely Do Less?”,...

4 days ago
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When Medicare Advantage Becomes Medicare Disadvantage for Men on Active Surveillance

By Howard Wolinsky, Editor, The Active Surveillor

American men usually sign up for Medicare and meet prostate cancer on roughly the same timetable. Mid‑60s on both clocks.

At 65, they are being sold vision, dental, maybe a gym discount an...

7 days ago
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Updated: A Better Blood Test for Screening—Not Yet Ready for Prime-time Active Surveillance

(Editor’s note: This is an update of an article I ran June 23. Hari Vigneswaran, MD, Chief Medical Officer at A3P Biomedical, developer of the Stockholm3 test, told me about some updates in the status of the biomarker blood test, So I am up...

8 days ago
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ASPI's Awards Season: AS Pioneers, Advocates and Researchers Honored

By Howard Wolinsky, Editor, The Active Surveillor

Five years ago, Active Surveillance Patients International (ASPI) began honoring the pioneers of Active Surveillance.

These doctors put their careers on the line to save patients like us...

10 days ago
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A Better Blood Test for Screening—Not Yet Ready for Primetime Active Surveillance

By Howard Wolinsky, Editor, The Active Surveillor

Stockholm3, a blood test, appears to do what PSA was always supposed to do but rarely achieved on its own: find more of the prostate cancers that really matter while causing about the same...

11 days ago
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