"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
prostate cancer and “youth is wasted on the young” and a thousand words are worth a picture.
So it is the fall of 1979 and I am a junior medical student at The Medical College of Georgia in Augusta. I am to be married to my current wife in December of the same year. Because of this I had to scramble to have a place to live for the three months of …
Fifty shades of prostate cancer Rule #2-For better or worse a prostate biopsy is the only way to definitively diagnose prostate cancer.
Bladder neck contracture, prostate cancer, prostatectomy and treatment…
This is a video of a patient who is s/p a prostatectomy and has developed a bladder neck contracture. He presented with diminution of his urinary stream. If a patient is voiding well after the prostate is removed and then the stream slowly decreases the likelihood is that he has developed a bladder neck contracture. …
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Does a prostate nodule always mean prostate cancer? A podcast by John McHugh M.D.
When I am at my little cabin on Lake Lanier I sit at a small table that has a laptop and I write. About every thirty minutes or so our chocolate lab Penelope will come over to me and rest her chin on my thigh and then whine a high pitched sound that beckons me …
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Regarding Prostate Cancer Decision Making- Does It Matter That You Can Do Radiation After Prostatatectomy But Not Vice Versa?
I mentioned the concept in my book, I think urologists (rightfully or wrongly) use it as a reason for patients to have their prostate removed, patients often use it as a justification to have the prostate removed, it probably pisses off and frustrates the radiation therapist....and that is the concept of: If I remove the …
How can one predict the need for radiation after having the prostate removed for prostate cancer?
If you are choosing to have a prostatectomy because "you'll be cured" Or if you think that you'll have the option of having radiation if cancer comes back Or if you think "well if I have the prostate surgery I can have radiation but not vice versa" Or if you think one or the other …
No Needle No Scalpel Vasectomy Madness and Northeast Georgia Urological Associates are on T.V.!
CBS Atlanta Comes to Northeast Georgia Urological Associates-The T.V. Segment
Can you get cancer from having sex with a man who has prostate cancer?…Part Two-response to a comment.
Can you get cancer from having sex with a man who has prostate cancer?...Part Two-response to a comment..
Does removing the prostate for prostate cancer or having a vasectomy make you less of a man?
Well what makes you less of a man...For the most part it is the male hormone Testosterone. The circulating levels of testosterone do not change after vasectomy or prostatectomy. A vasectomy does not affect erections. A prostatectomy and radiation do potentially negatively affect erections...so in that sense it may very well make someone less …
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