awareness, awareness, awareness…I remember vida blue pitching… he was a gorgeous pitcher…i was a pirates fan…i could pick them up on my mother’s malibu am radio…roberto clemente, stargell…all from a little car am radio in my front yard in lagrange, ga… oh yeah…prostate cancer
If I remove the prostate for prostate cancer I’m cured right? Maybe! The importance of the Partin table.
Partin table-you must understand the significance of this to make an "informed decision" I have done a post similiar to this in the past, but the issue keeps coming up in patients I talk to and I felt it was worthwhile to revisit. As simplistic as this drawing is, it answers a question and …
What’s new about this? It’s what we’ve been doing for years.
Prostate Cancer Goes to Washington PCF Hosts Discussion on Capitol Hill about the PSA TestA flurry of confusing research about the benefits of PSA testing has left many men and their physicians reticent to use a test that may be life-saving, says a panel of prostate cancer experts. The experts who gathered on Capitol Hill in …
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How would you grade your “biopsy urologist?” Did you keep him or her or did you move on?
Show some loving to the "biopsy urologist" post. It may behoove you. I wrote this post some time ago. I had noticed how many times on the various prostate cancer message boards that patients got their diagnosis, made a decision and then went elsewhere. In many of the discussions the "biopsy urologist" was never mentioned, …
proxy headlines and prostate cancer-sex drive is different than impotence-Andrew Lloyd Webber ‘Love never dies’ composer
Prostate cancer op ruins Andrew Lloyd Webber’s sex life By ANIMarch 16th, 2010 LONDON - Music composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has revealed that his sex drive has been affected after prostate cancer treatment. The 61-year-old ‘Love Never Dies’ composer, who has been married thrice, underwent a surgery to fight the disease. “Sex drive does take …
Some people just can’t tell a joke
Richard Pryor had skit one time about one of his characters that could not tell a joke. It went something like, "there were three dudes. No two dudes. No three, no two dudes and nun. That's it, two dudes and a nun. " Then Pryor would say," Leroy could not tell a joke" Well I …
One man’s view of life one year after prostate cancer treatment-Jim Tucker and prostablog
New Zealand is a favorite post-urologic residency destination. They have a very good urologic medical community and I have two friends that did a fellowship there. That Mr. Tucker speaks of being sexually active after a prostatectomy bespeaks of the folks over there performing a prostatectomy the right way ( I also noted the length …
something attributed to Osler and applies to prostate cancer when you have been treated-“the well wear a crown that only the sick can see.”
Something I give to all my patients who are leaning for the surgical removal of the prostate is a part of a chapter from Patrick Walsh’s book on prostate cancer. It has to do with post-prostatectomy incontinence. The beauty of the piece is that Dr. Walsh thoroughly vets the unpredictable nature of this issue. I …
the vicisstudes of prostate cancer blogging-is anybody out there?
I started doing this blog thing about two months ago. Early on, I subscribed my daughter Bess to it without her knowledge or permission although afterwards she said she did not mind. Since then she will say in front of my wife that she saw the blog and the "neat" picture of penelope for that …
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