how to use the prostate cancer blog prostate diaries-an informative yet slightly irreverent and eclectic guide for the prostate cancer patient.

The leaf from a distance looks like Penelope's tongue doesn't it? Don't over cogitate about me being a urologist or that I have a book on amazon about prostate cancer. If it were not for the book there would be no blog. Before I had written the book I pretty much had never gone on …

radiation cystitis and prostate cancer…the gift that keeps on giving…

Now the pepster wants to do podcasts...no way shomcheppie....   Today I informed a patient that his prostate biopsy showed cancer and he began, as often patients do, telling me about advice various friends had given him. "My friend down the street told me not to have the regular surgery, I should have the one …

prostate cancer podcast on post prostate biopsy checking for prostate cancer and subsequent provocative blood born infections…whew…say that three times!

A little disappointed in the Penelope...she refuses to play with the new puppies...try as they may...she shuns them. She is not mean, she just won't play. Chloe played with her, she played as a puppie with Toosie, she plays with Brudder and Bella....but ignores the new sibling Dachshunds.  Go figure...she may be getting "chloeised." Hey listen.....post prostate …

Prostate cancer musing…PSA is very reliable when following prostate cancer “after” treatment.

The leaves in Northeast Georgia have been particularly pretty this year and have hung around more than usual. The light comes through the trees behind Penelope about 5 everyday and are almost "illuminated" by the sun. I had a friend who happens to be a doctor call me to ask me some questions about his …

Breaking News…USPSTF declines PSA testing on Egyptian Mummy with Metastatic Prostate Cancer!

Just kidding....too funny to pass up. Where is the USPSTF when you need them? We can do MRI's on 2000 year old Egyptians but don't recommend  PSAs on men in the U.S.A. Mummy Had History’s Second-Oldest Prostate Cancer Case By Heather Pringle, Science Now Some 2,250 years ago in Egypt, a man known today only as M1 struggled …