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Vernon Girls

25th December 2010
Vernon Girls photographWatford Observer on-line Dec 25th 2010 and in paper - also below an article fron the Uxbridge Gazette The race for a festive top-ten hit has long since finished, but a Chorleywood musician has written and recorded a song for his own Christmas number ones – the staff at Mount Vernon Hospital. Earlier this week national newspaper headlines slammed Britain's below-average survival rates for both breast and bowel cancer. However, former teacher and prostate-cancer patient Bob Arthy, of Chal[...]

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Summary The proposed “Riskman” randomised controlled trial will evaluate a significantly improved approach to prostate cancer screening focussing on how we screen and who we screen. If successful it would completely change the debate on prostate cancer screening within 5 years. Background Cancer represents a failure of control of cellular growth and cancer becomes more difficult to treat the later it is diagnosed as a cascade of molecular and pathological events occur, as such ear[...]

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A video well worth watching

18th December 2010
Professor Roger Kirby, Consultant Urologist at The London Clinic, talks about prostate cancer screening and the treatment options available

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