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Inside Health: E-cigs; PPI feedback; Be assertive with your doctor; Prostate cancer diagnosis

28/01/2014

E-cigs; PPI feedback; Be assertive with your doctor; Prostate cancer diagnosis

BBC Radio 4 - Inside Health, E-cigs; PPI feedback; Be assertive with your doctor; Prostate cancer diagnosis

E-cigarette advertising, and could MRI revolutionise the diagnosis of prostate cancer?

Dr Mark Porter investigates e-cigarette advertising, the GP-patient relationship, and if MRI screening can revolutionise the diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer.

As the government calls for a ban on the sale of e cigarettes to under 18s, Dr Mark Porter is joined by Martin McKee, Gerard Hastings and Robert West to discuss who is using them and how they are being advertised. The chairman of NICE, David Haslam has suggested patients should demand more NICE approved drugs from their GP. Mark is joined by David and by GP Margaret McCartney to discuss whether patients really should be more pushy. Also in the programme Mark talks to Mark Emberton at University College London Hospital in London about the PROMIS trial into the benefits of using MRI to scan men's prostate gland to detect cancer.

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