This may surprise you but the patient drives the decision-making process. I can tell you there are patients who "want it out" from the get go and others that from the get go are suspicious of doctors and surgery and opt for surveillance. This article and others paint the male patient as a dumb malleable creature …
why doesn’t prostate diaries mention (specifically) proton therapy or HIFU for the treatment of prostate cancer?
Ross commented on How I as a urologist made my "Decision." As I work my way through the treatment decision, I find myself gravitating to either Proton Radiation Treatment or HIFU - high frequency focused ultrasound but I am surprised that you make no mention of either of these options. My post on HIFU The …
Wishing no blue christmas from prostate cancer blog prostate diaries
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Prostatediaries on Twitter Do you know what TwitterFeed is? Well, I figured it out. You take every news service on the internet that has both a RSS feed and has a feed dedicated you prostate cancer and....viola! They are all automatically feed into your Twitter account. Daily I am amazed at what I learn from …
If you can’t get patients to stop wanting to be screened for prostate cancer…just call it something else. Brilliant!
So this is what it has come to. Patients are not smart enough not to "fall" for being treated for prostate cancer. So let's change the name. One way or the other the NIH, the HHS, the USTFPF (or whatever) will figure out a way not to pay for prostate cancer screening. They are a clever bunch. And who …
Gainesville’s Northeast Georgia Urology Group To Give Away a Big Green Egg to Lucky Vasectomy/Vasectomy Reversal Patient
Any patient having a vasectomy or vasectomy reversal at the Northeast Georgia Urological Associates from now until the Super Bowl (Feb. 5) will have a chance at winning a Large Green Egg. If you have been considering a vasectomy or vas reversal now is the time to both recover while watching your favorite team and possibly …
Just because you remove the prostate for prostate cancer doesn’t mean you are cured!
I commonly have to correct patients decision making reasoning as related to the title of this post. "I think I'll remove it because at least that way I know I got it all," I hear often. This reasoning is flawed as the above videocast explains.
What’s it going to take to prevent patients presenting with prostate cancer too late to cure?
The above picture was taken last year almost to the day in Orange Beach, Alabama. I remember the day vividly. My wife and I went to the beach and for almost every minute of the day construction vehicles were working and making noise just outside our condominium. It was comical how loud and persistent the noise …
When is a prostate nodule a nodule and do nodules always mean prostate cancer?
Question: I have a 70 yo friend with a strong fam hx of prostate cancer — his father died of it. Despite a psa of 1.2, he recently had a nodule felt by his family doctor and his urologist on dre, which was followed by a biopsy that was negative — no cancer, and nothing else unusual …
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