PodMed – Week of September 19, 2016

This week’s topics include long term results in low risk prostate cancer, ovarian cancer screening, statin benefits, and sex differences in MI.

Program notes:

0:32 Benefits of statins

1:32 Reduces deaths from cardiovascular causes

2:33 Benefit clearly outweighs risk

3:22 Sex differences in heart attack

4:22 Incidence rate for MI

5:22 Persistent gap through age 95

5:44 Outcomes for prostate cancer management

6:44 Risk of dying of prostate cancer low

7:45 Framed up differently

8:50 Monitoring may be more appropriate

9:13 FDA warning on ovarian ca tests

10:10 Ovarian cancer don’t  have a precancerous lesion

10:59 End