Well...I see patients all the time who have had an elevated PSA in the past and their family M.D. put them on 2 weeks of Cipro and then had the PSA repeated. Often times the PSA will go to normal and the family M.D. will then repeat a PSA at say 6 months. Often …
A low or normal PSA and still have prostate cancer? You bet!
The article below is one of the few times I have actually seen written the concept of a low PSA and prostate cancer. Why is it important? Because often times men will have a physical exam by their family doctor and everything is checked but the prostate by rectal exam. (Remember the article that stated …
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Is staging necessary in low to intermediate risk prostate cancer? Are we talking about me or are we talking about everybody else?
First off all...look at the sentence I highlighted in bold. Are you kidding me? Concerns about a CT scan and radiation all the while finding no complaints regarding treating the prostate cancer with radiation regardless if it's seeds, Proton, or external beam. The use of "misuse" is an attention getter is it not. We have known for years …
What’s wrong with the following “press release” about prostate cancer and sexual function-The article in general and the title in particular…Please comment…come on you can do this!
New Robotic Surgery Technique Maintains Sexual Function After Prostate Cancer Surgery The SMART Technique (Samadi Modified Advanced Robotic Technique) Enhances Surgical Precision and Maintains Sexual Wellbeing After Prostate Cancer Treatment Dr. David Samadi, Vice Chairman, Department of Urology, and Chief of Robotics and Minimally Invasive Surgery at The Mount Sinai Medical Center knows the wide …
Vasectomy 101-Gainesville’s Northeast Georgia Urology Group (NGUA) Podcast
If you look hard enough you'll see Chloe in the background being a good girl and just taking it in. On the other hand...I have got some work to do with the Pepster. She chases the lure in the water by following the fishing line. She'll swim where the line goes despite my moving the …
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Can you get cancer from having sex with a man who has prostate cancer?…Part Two-response to a comment.
North Georgia is known for being in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains and for the small streams associated with that. The state fisheries department "stocks" the streams with Rainbow trout that they raise at various hatcheries. The state then takes them by truck and empties the fish into the small streams at bridge …
Five reasons not to have a robotic radical prostatectomy for prostate cancer.
Patients often choose their treatment for prostate cancer not by which has the best cure of the cancer rather which treatment best blends cure with the risks. Prostate cancer differs in this regard from most other cancers and why many prostate cancer men choose radiation. Dirty little secret: patients understand and full well know the …
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Five reasons to choose removing your prostate for prostate cancer instead of radiation.
men are not prisoners of fate...they are prisoners of their own minds.....FDR- that's a 1966 Ford Mustang-289-original body style John...nothing you drive has an airbag...a lot of people depend on you...buy a new car! The Five Reasons:You don't have radiation in your body the rest of your life.You don't have radiation in your body the rest of …
Bloody urine and radiation cystitis? But I had radiation for prostate cancer five years ago!
insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results... Radiation is a bit like Round Up (the grass killer). If you spray grass with it, the grass doesn't immediately die...it takes days to weeks. And then is some spots, the brownis grass turns green again. So if you have radiation today...some …
expectations and prostate cancer surgery…what about radiation and….”the proton?”
In my opinion patients have a better feel for what to expect in terms of impotence and incontinence with surgery than with radiation. You better believe that the urologists out there are telling there patients about the possibility of complications, this is innate to all surgeries. Patients understand that surgery means anesthesia, risk of bleeding, and other …
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