Medical insight, personal stories and humor from a urologist who has been where you are now.
I think this is a very reasonable study. The newly diagnosed prostate cancer couple should all of the resources available to them to make " The Decision." All of the factors play a role in the ultimate choice. What the multi-media doesn't address is that before a patient and family can choose anything they must …
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He adds that, in general, 15 to 25 percent of men whose initial biopsy shows a low-risk prostate tumor will actually have a high-grade cancer upon further review of the entire prostate once it is removed. So...how big a boy are you? It seems to me that some patients wear the decision to pursue …
Lamar Hunt Wikipedia Lamar Hunt and the "cornering of the silver market" Lamar Hunt's money came from oil. Hunt's ketchup is part of the Heinz family. About the soccer game today. I happen to know that about 25 times a day some folks in Australia visit my site by way of Yananow. I lettered …
This is a picture of one of my sons when I lived in Augusta, Georgia in the early eighties. He is in a little garden I had behind our house on Ellis Street. I have always had a garden and have always had " home-grown" tomatoes in the summer. " Ain't nothing like em." It …
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The story of Michael Milken: His investment history, the trial, prison stint, getting prostate cancer and then turning all that into PCF and subsequently the relationship with MLB is truly something to marvel at. If you haven't already, the Wikipedia history is very interesting to read. I can't wait to see how they are going to decorate …
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It's a funny thing. I think there are two types of men when it comes to medical care and particularly prostate cancer awareness. One set of men I see are patients who are all over the disease. They are aware of family members that have had prostate cancer, they may have a wife that is very proactive …
Did you know? From " The Decision" · You have a higher incidence of bladder or rectal cancer after having received radiation. · Frank Zappa, Bill Bixby, and Dan Fogelberg died in their fifties from prostate cancer, all within three years of diagnosis. · One in six men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer at …
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If all you have is a hammer...the whole world is a nail. My brother Bob once sold used cars. It was always humorous to him how customers would come in with cost comparisons that had been obtained from either another dealership or the internet. The customer, in my brother’s view, almost always had a false …
chloe, pepsi, the van, the lake, and a mophead hydrangea...these are some of my favorite things.....Mary Poppins? There are so many nuances and particulars about prostate cancer and the treatments and the aftermath... that very few people " get." So..... let me let you into the " informed and enlightened" circle. In order: Concepts that the …
Colon cancer?...Prostate cancer?..... the check up for prostate cancer is sooooooo much easier. Tomorrow I have my second colonoscopy that will be done with one of my best friends. So...a rectal exam and a PSA versus colonoscopy. Have you had to fast with liquids only all day and then the "cathartic stuff" just to get …
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