This was off a post on twitter- theintegretyinstitute.org. Simple to the point and I feel makes sense. What is right recipe for early detection? Awareness and reasonable screening as a team effort of the patient and doctor. I examined a 65-year-old man this week with a very large prostate nodule that came back on biopsy …
Who was Bob Monkhouse? Hint- Zappa, Bixby, Fogleberg and Albin’s father. The prostate cancer that kills in three years- the one i worry about
If you twitter check out the Bob Monkhouse page- " When I told them I was going to be a comedian, they laughed. No one is laughing now." Now that is good stuff!Monkhouse was married twice, to Elizabeth Thompson on November 5, 1949 (divorced in 1972), and then to Jacqueline Harding on October 4, 1973. …
A lawyer’s take on screening and prostate cancer-teaching men how to know when the doctor is at fault-Yet another Bart Simpson damned if you do and damned if you don’t
Ways A Doctor Could Be Accountable For Delay In Diagnosing Prostate Cancer Until It Spreads- By: Joseph Hernandez "How can I sue thee... Let me count the ways." I actually like the logical way this lawyer works through this process. He is telling the reader how a doctor can be liable if he doesn't order …
eunuch monks don’t get prostate cancer- bald and infertile men
First earlier this month were prostate cancer articles about men that are bald are less likely to get prostate cancer. Now this, if a man is infertile, he is more likely to have the aggressive type of prostate cancer. To me it is as if these various researchers start with an interesting topic for a study, …
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prostate cancer and the walnut and other fruits and vegetables the prostate is akin to
Urologists, and all physicians for that matter, are known to describe organs or other medical abnormalities in terms of something a patient can easily understand or identify with. I usually describe kidney stones in terms of various vegetables , i.e. a 5 mm ureteral stone is the size of an english pea. A 1 cm stone, …
prostate cancer and fishing? now we’re talking!
Go fishing for Prostate Cancer by StreetCorner 22/03/2010 NSW Primary Industries Minister, Steve Whan is encouraging all NSW fishers to throw in a line in support of the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia on Sunday 11 April 2010. “The Pirtek Fishing Challenge is a great way to promote an important cause through one of Australia’s …
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visit any prostate cancer message board and you’ll see why anything that facilitates an understanding of the treatment options is a good idea
Can Multimedia Lead To More Informed Decisions On Prostate Cancer Treatment? 12 Mar 2010 Mount Sinai School of Medicine is leading a study of patients newly-diagnosed with prostate cancer to determine if providing them with multimedia materials can help them make more informed treatment decisions. Michael Diefenbach, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Urology at Mount Sinai …
Prostate cancer and the oxymoron: Active surveillance-actively doing nothing?
This is very good primer on the complexity of making a prostate cancer treatment decision. The reason active surveillance has a role in prostate cancer is that it is often times diagnosed in an older male with other medical problems (life expectancy issues). This then in combination with favorable Gleason's or low volume on the …
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Mr. Ablin’s father died of prostate cancer after presenting late in the disease-could screening and a PSA have saved him? A special investigative report by Pepe the prostate.
Read the below very carefully. First of all Mr. Ablin's site is sponsored by a medical company and yet he protests profit that is the result of PSA testing. His father died of prostate cancer after presenting very late in the disease and died a year later. This ethically and appropriately raises the question, "Could his father been saved by …
A useful urine test for prostate cancer- wait until the the anti-screen crowd get a load of this
This will be useful. Currently we repeat rectal exams and PSA's in a serial fashion and repeat a biopsy if there is a change in these two parameters. If this gets approval we would add a urine specimen after prostate massage to the follow-up process. More steps to the screening process and more money...Mr. Albin and …
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