Just cause your buddy at work or your uncle Harry chose one particular treatment and did great dont mean you will. You gotta know specifics.... Gleason's , PSA , rectal exam, path report, voiding pattern, underlying health, personality and family situation. That's right- personality...Why is that important?
Fifty shades of prostate cancer: A fool with a tool is still a fool!
Robotic surgeon- Better do more homework than just this proclamation. Just because someone uses a robot doesn't mean you'll be dry, potent or cured.
Shades of grey prostate cancer: Do know why the prostatic urethra is important both to surgery and radiation treatments?
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Shades of grey prostate cancer: A Gleason’s 6 you can talk to…a Gleason’s 10 won’t listen to a damn word you say! Keep that in mind my friend.
Fifty shades of prostate cancer treatment: All forms of treatment will affect how you void.
Prostate cancer rule# 5: Get a baseline line PSA before the age of 50.
Nearly Half Of All Deaths From Prostate Cancer Can Be Predicted Before Age 50 18 Apr 2013 A new design of screening could improve ratio between benefit and harms of screening Focusing prostate cancer testing on men at highest risk of developing the disease is likely to improve the ratio between benefits and the harms …
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Prostate cancer rule# 4: It matters who does your surgery or seed implantation.
Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck. ~George
Don’t make assumptions regarding prostate cancer decision making.
"Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in." - Isaac Asimov
What’s the difference between a radical prostatectomy and a Greenlight Laser prostatectomy?
A lot of patients will come to my office after a positive biopsy of the prostate and after weeks of research tell me they have decided to have their prostate removed by the "laser." Well with all the stuff out there it stands to reason that things can get confusing. The only laser treatment for …
Prostate cancer survivor and hero…The Battle of the Bulge. December 16, 1944-January 25, 1945.
The Battle of the Bulge- The bloodiest battle of WWII. If you listen carefully you have the Mr. Cornelssen carrying his machine gun and a 53lb tripod and two other soldiers carrying the ammunition. Walked from Normandy Beaches to Luxembourg, wounded in the Battle of the Bulge, operated on in a field hospital that was …
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