New Prostate Cancer Treatment Info

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contristo@gmail.com - 25 Apr 2006 16:45 GMT

hi all.

there is a new web site with new information on prostate cancer that I
would like to share
with you all.

http://prostatecancer.obscuresound.com

keep up the fight!

-marcus

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Alan Meyer - 25 Apr 2006 23:02 GMT

> hi all.
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> http://prostatecancer.obscuresound.com

Marcus,

You've got Google ads on your website to various for-profit
treatment groups, but none to the main websites for helping
people with PCa.

Also, some of your information is a bit sloppy. For example,
from your treatment page:

> "Intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) allows
> oncologists to modulate, or change, the intensity of the doses
> and radiation beams to better target the radiation delivered to
> the prostate, while at the same time delivering lower doses to
> the tumor cells that are immediately adjacent to the bladder
> and rectal tissue."

The idea isn't to deliver lower doses to tumor cells anywhere,
but to deliver higher doses to tumor cells with minimal dosage
increase to non-tumor cells.

> "Compared with external radiation therapy, brachytherapy is
> less commonly used, but it is rapidly gaining ground, primarily
> because it doesn't require daily visits to the treatment
> center."

That is one reason. I don't know if it's the primary reason or
not. A big reason is that brachytherapy implants the radioactive
material right in the tumors, giving a significantly lower dose
to surrounding non-cancerous tissue.

I can't help thinking that your website doesn't contribute
anything useful to the battle against prostate cancer. It looks
to me like something thrown together to try to generate revenue
via Google ads.

Alan

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