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Article: More younger men diagnosed with stage IV prostate cancer.(Urology)
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- Internal Medicine News
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- August 1, 2008
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CHICAGO -- Advanced prostate cancer is being diagnosed increasingly in younger men aged 60 years or less in the United States, despite the widespread availability of prostate-specific antigen testing, according to epidemiologic evidence spanning 15 years from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results database.
"That's the bad news," Dr. Michael Carducci said at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, where he presented the data in a poster. "The good news is that they are living longer than ever before."
Dr. Carducci, professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, tempered the good news with the observation ...