Screening for Prostate Cancer- PSA Testing or Not??
In an official move that should have come as no surprise to anyone, the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) published a very controversial recommendation in the Annals of Internal Medicine yesterday. The recommendation comes out strongly AGAINST the use of PSA in screening asymptomatic populations of men …
As Our DNA Defines Us, Science Outpaces Ethics
I was fortunate to have had a featured article in Canada’s leading newspaper, The Globe and Mail, this week in the Commentary/Opinion (online) section. You can read the original here. This was based on a post that I made here on the blog about genomics (read the full version here). …
Newly Released Canadian Cancer Statistics for 2012
Every year since 1987, the Canadian Cancer Society (CCS) publishes its foundational monograph “Canadian Cancer Statistics”. This is a very important publication, involving other partners, such as Statistics Canada, provincial/territorial cancer registries, and the Public Health Agency of Canada. Today, the CCS published the 2012 edition – you can get …