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Posted 7/9/2019 6:14 PM (GMT -5)
Wow this sounds pretty good!

https://www.mdlinx.com/urology/top-medical-news/article/2019/07/08/7571733?uic=ZZ4AC7E7EF5E534208ADC89C3B6918EDAB&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Uro%20Morning%20July9&utm_term=Daily%20Update%20Urology%20with%20Sailthru%20Activity

Larry
Posted 7/9/2019 6:43 PM (GMT -5)
https://www.mdlinx.com/urology/top-medical-news/article/2019/07/08/7571733?uic=zz4ac7e7ef5e534208adc89c3b6918edab&utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=uro%20morning%20july9&utm_term=daily%20update%20urology%20with%20sailthru%20activity
Posted 7/9/2019 9:32 PM (GMT -5)
Sounds good. One more diagnostic tool is always welcome.

More trials will test if it can become a game-changer in reducing unnecessary biopsies.
Posted 7/9/2019 11:54 PM (GMT -5)
Thanks, Larry.
Here's a link to an abstract of the study: A Four-Group Urine Risk Classifier for Predicting Outcome in Prostate Cancer Patients.
Posted 7/10/2019 8:25 AM (GMT -5)
Thanks Rich for the link. As we continue on our journey's of PCA we keep seeing improvements in both testing and treatments and hopefully a successful end of PCA in our lifetime! I was up at the cemetery watering the inlaws flowers the other day and since I was on my bike just kinda rode through the cemetery looked at all the people who lost their lives between 1914 and 1918 to some of the terrible diseases that were going around the world then, just imagine how overwhelming the task of finding cures to these diseases and then later polio must have been. Sometimes we are critical of the costs of health care but some of it is justified when we think of all the research and science and testing going into the cure of diseases we face in the world. As I was reading through this study just thinking how this could help prevent unnecessary treatments, easier diagnosis, and the right treatment for people who need aggressive treatment sooner than later. Just wanted to recognize the hard work these guys and gals do every day!

Larry
Posted 7/10/2019 2:42 PM (GMT -5)
This hopefully the first of the diagnostic tools that has been needed to help define which PC's need to be treated, and which do not--for those who land in the 'intermediate risk' or even 'low risk' categories. And, I'll add my appreciation to those PC patients who came before and took the risks of what was then a new or different treatment--some of which were successful, and (especially) those that were not.

I always remind myself when I read something like this is that the most common answer in scientific research is actually, "YOU'RE WRONG". How many different materials did Edison try for his incandescent lamp before he found one that worked?
Posted 7/10/2019 2:49 PM (GMT -5)
New version of the PHI or PCA3 tests.
Posted 7/18/2019 10:21 PM (GMT -5)
Good News for those diagnosed in the future... but the article goes on to say: "Brooks said these findings are "promising enough that additional research in a larger population would be worthwhile." But, he said a commercially available test would likely be a number of years away."
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