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Barbers and prostate cancer education-jluque@georgiasouthern.edu The goal of this pilot study was to assess the feasibility of training barbers to deliver a brief culturally and literacy appropriate prostate cancer educational intervention to urban African American men. Eight barbers received training to deliver a 2-month educational intervention in the barbershop and completed pre- and posttest training assessments. …
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Prostate Cancer That Women Should Know Women Adjoin Prostate Cancer, a prostate blight abutment accumulation geared appear allowance women and families afflicted by prostate cancer, wants to accomplish abiding every woman knows the facts about the disease. Beneath are the top 10 things women should know: 1. What is a prostate? The prostate is a …
A patient and friend who was 49 asked me at a party when he should have his prostate checked. I said that the blood work and exam could be done in less than five minutes. I told him he could come by anytime at the end of his work-day through my office’s back door, and …
What is happening in increasing numbers and frequency is that a patient will have his biopsy done by his local urologist and then go about finding someone else to do the surgery. The trend has been to look for robotic surgeons and then go there for the treatment. I am Okay with that, I think …
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The male anatomy after the prostate has been removed becomes very similar to the female anatomy. Without the prostate the relationship of the bladder to the external sphincter and urethra are the same. This is why men will often times experience leakage of urine with activity much like some women(stress incontinence). When the prostate is removed the …
Patient Friendly Book Simplifies Prostate Cancer Treatment Choices. "The Decision:Your Prostate Biopsy Shows Cancer. Now What?" By John C. McHugh M.D. A Urologist and Prostate Cancer Survivor. A "urologist with his own disease" uses medical insight, personal experience, and humor in a novel fashion to guide the prostate cancer patient in making a treatment …
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Robotic prostate surgery rises, but results unclear New York Times Published Saturday, February 13, 2010 Dr. Jeffrey Cadeddu was trained to take out cancerous prostates by laparoscopy: making small incisions in the abdomen and inserting tools with his own hands to slice out the organ. "Patients interview you," said Cadeddu, a urologist at the University of Texas Southwestern …
Using finasteride and dutasteride to prevent prostate cancer February 13th, 2010 Posted in prostate cancer A recent study at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center has reanalyzed data regarding Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial (PCPT) to see if it is possible to address this problem. The authors state two conclusions: Clinicians wishing to reduce the risk of any biopsy-detectable prostate cancer should …
Most Not Worried by Delayed Prostate Cancer Therapy Posted by appdrugs in Uncategorized. Tagged: health, news, Prostate, prostate cancer, Therapy. Comments Off Men who delay treatment for their early prostate cancer are not especially anxious about living with the disease, new Dutch research shows. The evidence seems to contradict the assumption that living with untreated prostate …
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Perspectives Nature Reviews Cancer, advance online publication, Published online 11 February 2010 | doi:10.1038/nrc2795 Opinion: Breast and prostate cancer: more similar than different Gail P. Risbridger1, Ian D. Davis2, Stephen N. Birrell3 & Wayne D. Tilley3 Abstract Breast cancer and prostate cancer are the two most common invasive cancers in women and men, respectively. Although …
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