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Did Medicare Reimbursement Changes Affect Prostate Cancer Treatment?
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Page: << Prev | 1 | 2 | 3 What's also not known are the characteristics of the specific patients in the study, Basch said. "Either the treatment is more consistent with medical guidelines, or people who were being appropriately treated before are no longer getting it. We can't tell from this paper. It's very important that we have more detailed information about the patients themselves," he said.
Another report in the same issue of the journal had encouraging news. It showed increased life expectancy for people with late-stage testicular, colorectal and ovarian cancer. Treatment improvements have increased life expectancy by two years for ovarian cancer, 2.8 years for colorectal cancer, and 24 years for testicular cancer, with the testicular cancer gains largely due to an increase in the cure rate from 23 percent to 81 percent, according to the study by researchers at the U.S. National Cancer Institute.
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An overview of prostate cancer and its treatment is given by the American Cancer Society.
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Last updated 4/7/2008
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SOURCES: J. Stephen Jones, M.D., chairman of regional urology, Cleveland Clinic; Ethan Basch, M.D., assistant attending physician, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York City; May 15, 2008, Cancer
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