Prostate cancer question for Prostate Diaries: Can you have sex the morning of a prostate biopsy?

Had to get that "moustache dreadful picture of my hair off the main page of the previous post. A nurse of mine asked," Are those plugs?" The answer to the question posed above: Drum roll please...... Yes you can have sex the morning of a prostate biopsy Yes sex before a PSA will make it …

well dahhhhhhhh! you gotta a da vinci robot….take that nasty ole prostate cancer out….put a fork in it my frin …it’s done! addendum…proton guys..you hearing this?

 A 75-year-old man having his prostate removed by a "robot." I have personally seen it my frin. I cringed when I heard. A relatively healthy man of 75, maybe physiologically 65, gets his diagnosis of prostate cancer. "I want what the younger guys get. I am virile. Healthy. Treat me no different than your younger patients."  The …

The Lockerbie bomber, Gaddafi, oil, hillary and obama and what? Prostate cancer

Remember the uproar of the doctors missing the timing of the Lockerbie bomber and he  was released to Libya  to die in a predicted three months? No one at the time could figure out why such a missed diagnosis and what pressures Libya could possibly bring to bear on his captors to gain his release? Well...I …

Question for Lorenzo Squarf and Terry Herbert of Yananow about prostate cancer-Let’s play doctor!

So I am out at the lake where the above picture was taken and I have DSL and a laptop I recently purchased to leave out here and I was assured by the computer guy that it  was fully loaded with Microsoft Word. So I do the blog stuff, walk my dogs to the steps …

the art of “getting away with it”, prostate cancer and Lorenzo Q. Squarf (you couldn’t pay to have a name like that!)

The "art of getting away with it" is a favorite medical saying of mine. If I remove a ureteral stone and don't place a stent and risk extravasation of urine into the patient's retroperitoneum and the patient does just fine....what does that mean? Does it mean that I was brilliant, used seasoned medical judgement, or …

Highlighted excerpts on Amazon’s Kindle about prostate cancer nuances from “The Decision” are revealing….

First of all...how does Amazon know when an individual who has a Kindle marks something as a highlight? I saw these highlights today for the first time on the Kindle page for my book. I go there from time to time to read comments and check ratings. I want to comment on the highlights. Before …

what would charlie sheen do if he were diagnosed with prostate cancer?

First of all, if he had any type of medical problem it would change his perspective on things. From a marketing standpoint, Sheen has been brilliant. Maybe he has been held back by the traditional roles and media (movies and tv) and has been yearning for something new. I understand he has sold out a …