Medical insight, personal stories and humor from a urologist who has been where you are now.
This link has a lot of good things and then a lot of incorrect statements about prostate cancer and the sexual aftermath of the treatment of prostate cancer. Be that as it may...it too enhances awareness and discussion and that is good. Can you find factual errors in the piece? If so put in …
Continue reading "sexual function aftermath of the treatment of prostate cancer-it’s complicated"
The following was copied from a post on the American Cancer Society's Survivor Network. There are numerous lay members of these message boards that have been through the process and very conscientiously help other newly diagnosed cancer patients. If you have not visited a message board you should. You will be surprised by the candid dialogue …
Continue reading "Surgery or radiation for prostate cancer?"
Factors that a urologist with prostate cancer used to make his " Decision." I am not advising that you make the decision I did. (That is the difference between this book and many others about prostate cancer.) I am advising that you make your decision the way that I did. It has to be done based …
Continue reading "How a urologist decided what to do after being told he had prostate cancer."
Manhattan Beach News Cancer survivor returns from nationwide awareness tripby Carley Dryden (Updated: Thursday, September 23, 2010 1:23 PM PDT) It’s one thing men just don’t want to talk about.When Robert Hess brings up testing for prostate cancer, most of his friends squirm.“Guys just don’t want to do it … but once they’re diagnosed, …
Since I have written the book I have perused the internet more often for prostate related news. I started this blog, I subscribe to RSS feeds that deal with prostate cancer news, and I search Twitter from time to time about Tweets related to the same. There is a consistent pattern of about three issues …
Palo Alto Medical Foundation Prostate Cancer Buddy Program- Watch....but watch with a "grain of salt." I have not watched this assortment of videos. Here is what I'd tell you as a patient and as a urologist about this if you choose to watch. People in general and patients in general tend to "romance" their treatment choice, …
And I so loved his movie and that he was singing " The day they drove old Dixie down." Dana Jenning's family and the emotion that goes with all this prostate cancer stuff. I have been there. But this? Ted Turner and the trite old "money reference" in conjunction with the treatment of prostate cancer. Then …
This is the number on thing on Twitter today if you search prostate cancer. I've read it but don't quite get what I am supposed to glean from it. Dutch men are in the dark about the prostate? Here's the thing and why the American Cancer Society's stance on screening is potentially harmful: The problem …
In the picture above is my garage and my 1986 Toyota truck, my first air-conditioned car that I bought in residency in Augusta, Ga to use to moonlight in Millen, Ga for extra money. On the truck are our three cats, in order from right to left, Kitten, Annie, and Kibber. On the hood is Penelope as …
Pepe the Prostate....the interview.... Brawley and Brooks are "Public Health" types and this explains their position on screening. "Making decisions for the masses" with an emphasis on what is cost effective. Why such a descreptancy between the ACS and the doctors (AUA) who are actually treating the disease? I mention this so that you will "take with …
Prostate Diaries 