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Currently, all medical advertisements in periodicals, leaflets, posters, street banners and online newspapers are subjected to prior review to verify whether they comply with relevant standards. Ironically, medical advertising on...
Currently, the Korean government is actively advocating the need to allow for-profit medical institutions. According to the government, the establishment of for-profit medical institutions would further improve the quality of...
Obesity is a disease that decreases life span. Childhood obesity leads to the higher prevalence of obesity in adulthood, which increases the risk of metabolic syndrome. Recently, the prevalence of...
Cancer pain patients have various diagnosis, stage of disease, response to pain, and treatments and individualized treatment methods are thus needed. Use of Nonopioid analgesics is the first step treatment...
Daylight Saving Time (DST) is used worldwide and affects millions of people annually. In the most countries, DST begins turning clocks forward by an hour in the spring and backward...
Prostate cancer is one of the most frequent cancers in Western countries and has been also one of the most rapidly increasing malignant diseases in Korean men. This disease shows...
The purpose of this article is to summarize up-to-date changes and policies in the diagnosis of prostate cancer. The triads of DRE (digital rectal examination), serum PSA (prostate specific antigen),...
Prostate cancer is the fourth most common cancer in men worldwide. Its incidence and mortality vary widely between countries and ethnicities. In Korea, the incidence of prostate cancer was much...
Prostate cancer represents the most common cancer in men in US and the fifth in men in Korea. For the patients with advanced prostate cancer, androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) remains...
Over the years, several surgical modifications have been incorporated into radical prostatectomy in order to improve the surgical outcome. Despite the rapid dissemination of robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy (RALP) through the...
Prostate cancer can be prevented more easily than other types of cancers, thanks to the following reasons: The presence of precursor lesions, longer doulbling time of cancerous cells, high incidence...