Medical insight, personal stories and humor from a urologist who has been where you are now.
On one hand the critics of PSA don't like it because men are diagnosed with non aggressive disease and subjected to debilitating treatments. Along comes the use of Avodart that disguises the less aggressive form of prostate cancer and increases of the more aggressive prostate cancer. If you have been reading all the problems about …
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PSA Cancer Screening, Much Like a Seat Belt, Is a Wise Choice for Men Prostate test saves lives by catching the disease when it's still curable By Patrick C. Walsh Posted December 1, 2009 Patrick Walsh, a professor of urology, is a former director of the James Buchanan Brady Urological Institute at Johns Hopkins Medicine. …
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Frank Zappa was diagnosed with prostate cancer in his fifties and succumbed to the disease in three years. Frank Zappa From Wikiquote Jump to: navigation, search Frank Vincent Zappa (1940-12-21 – 1993-12-04) was an American musician, composer and satirist. This person article needs cleanup. Please review Wikiquote:Templates, especially the standard format of people articles, to …
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This was off a post on twitter- theintegretyinstitute.org. Simple to the point and I feel makes sense. What is right recipe for early detection? Awareness and reasonable screening as a team effort of the patient and doctor. I examined a 65-year-old man this week with a very large prostate nodule that came back on biopsy …
If you twitter check out the Bob Monkhouse page- " When I told them I was going to be a comedian, they laughed. No one is laughing now." Now that is good stuff!Monkhouse was married twice, to Elizabeth Thompson on November 5, 1949 (divorced in 1972), and then to Jacqueline Harding on October 4, 1973. …
Ways A Doctor Could Be Accountable For Delay In Diagnosing Prostate Cancer Until It Spreads- By: Joseph Hernandez "How can I sue thee... Let me count the ways." I actually like the logical way this lawyer works through this process. He is telling the reader how a doctor can be liable if he doesn't order …
First earlier this month were prostate cancer articles about men that are bald are less likely to get prostate cancer. Now this, if a man is infertile, he is more likely to have the aggressive type of prostate cancer. To me it is as if these various researchers start with an interesting topic for a study, …
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Urologists, and all physicians for that matter, are known to describe organs or other medical abnormalities in terms of something a patient can easily understand or identify with. I usually describe kidney stones in terms of various vegetables , i.e. a 5 mm ureteral stone is the size of an english pea. A 1 cm stone, …
Go fishing for Prostate Cancer by StreetCorner 22/03/2010 NSW Primary Industries Minister, Steve Whan is encouraging all NSW fishers to throw in a line in support of the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia on Sunday 11 April 2010. “The Pirtek Fishing Challenge is a great way to promote an important cause through one of Australia’s …
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Can Multimedia Lead To More Informed Decisions On Prostate Cancer Treatment? 12 Mar 2010 Mount Sinai School of Medicine is leading a study of patients newly-diagnosed with prostate cancer to determine if providing them with multimedia materials can help them make more informed treatment decisions. Michael Diefenbach, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Urology at Mount Sinai …
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