Preventive Medicine Articles

Men die earlier than women in Germany. Men also have impaired access to cancer screening compared to women.

Our Movember campaign 2019 at University Hospital Frankfurt (UKF) aimed at improving health care awareness in the context of prostate cancer checkup.

Urology is an important medical discipline for men, women and children due to the variety and frequency of urologic diseases-a fact which is unknown to the majority of the population. In 2016, the "triple F" campaign was initiated in order to inform about both the role of urology and the importance of timely urologic investigations as well as prostate-specific antigen (PSA)-based early examination.

Active surveillance (AS) for patients with prostate cancer (PC) with low risk of PC death is an alternative to radical treatment. A major drawback of AS is the uncertainty whether a patient truly has low risk PC based on biopsy alone.

Screening for prostate cancer remains controversial. General practitioners (GPs) play an important role in assisting men to make an informed decision on prostate cancer screening. The aim of this study was to determine the knowledge and practice of prostate cancer screening among private GPs in Malaysia.

The debate of whether testicular self-examination (TSE) should be promoted among males generally centers on a harm-benefit corollary. The benefits of TSE include improving health outcomes, inclusive of an increase in both quality of life and knowledge/awareness of potential health concerns, as well as promoting proactivity in achieving wellness.

Dietary factors and physical activity may alter prostate cancer progression. We explored the feasibility of lifestyle interventions following radical prostatectomy for localised prostate cancer.

Patients were recruited into a presurgical observational cohort; following radical prostatectomy, they were offered randomisation into a 2×3 factorial randomised controlled trial (RCT).

Primary care attributes (PCAs) encompassed by patient-centered medical homes may increase receipt of preventive care, though national studies are lacking.

We performed cross-sectional adjusted analyses of self-report data from adults in the 2007 to 2010 US Medical Expenditure Panel Surveys (N = 50,457).