A new study focusing on Asian-American men gives prostate cancer patients one more factor to ponder?on top of many well-established considerations?when selecting a treatment strategy. The data, which appear in the September issue of Cancer, highlight that the disease can follow significantly different courses in different ethnic groups.
For men, a diagnosis of prostate cancer prompts a thicket of difficult decisions. Aggressive action against these tumors extends life span for some patients, but side effects such as impotence and incontinence can take a heavy toll on their quality of life. Other men do best with no invasive treatment at all. In choosing from among myriad treatments, doctors and patients typically work collaboratively to weigh a man's age, his medical history, the tumor's severity, and other personal factors. The list continues to grow. This month, for example, research published in the online version of Cancer suggests it may behoove people to take their ethnicity into account as well.
AP - Alarmed tourists jammed Caribbean airports for flights out of Hurricane Dean's path Saturday as the monster storm began sweeping past the Dominican Republic and Haiti and threatened to engulf Jamaica and the Cayman Islands.
AP - A seven-alarm fire ripped through an abandoned skyscraper next to ground zero in Lower Manhattan Saturday, killing two firefighters who were responding to the blaze.
Two firefighters died Saturday from injuries sustained battling a blaze at an office building just south of Ground Zero, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said. The building was damaged in the September 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center, by falling debris from the twin towers.
An "extremely dangerous" Hurricane Dean intensified Saturday as it muscled across the Caribbean and headed toward Jamaica, the National Hurricane Center said Saturday. The effects of the storm are being felt in Haiti, the Dominican Republic and space.
Two people were arrested Saturday in connection with the triple killings in a New Jersey elementary schoolyard, law enforcement sources said. Five people have been arrested in the case and police are hunting a sixth.