Podbean video podcast on prostate cancer and the reluctant and misinformed male
Question: Options for failed or failing cryosurgery for prostate cancer.
First of all the PSA as a judge of the status of prostate cancer after treatment is reliable. There is a PSA bump that is sometimes seen after seed therapy which reverts to normal with time. The period of time when the PSA begins to rise, hovers and then goes back down in these …
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question about prostate cancer….high Gleason’s / low PSA…..how can this be?
burn me once... shame on you...burn me twice...shame on me When tumors are described by way of its differentiation, i.e. well differentiated, poorly differentiated, what they are talking about is how close or how far away is from a normal one. In prostate cancer the Gleason's score is a way to describe how a …
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the foundation of prostate cancer decision making…rectal exam, psa and the specifics of “your” disease…it’s not about your uncle Bob or your buddy at church did about “their” cancer!
It was pretty today in Northeast Georgia....a bit windy however. My newest stab at podcasting...what do you think? My plan is to take about 100 specific questions about prostate cancer ( I cheat by looking at my blog's search history) and answer them concisely and hopefully with a somewhat clever and irreverant slant. Today I …
Two new questions about prostate cancer:Libido and Free PSA
This is a shadow box I made for a charity auction a couple of years ago. A clock made with Viagra stuff that drug reps had given me over the years. The guy that bought it, brought by for me to autograph it. I called it ..."Hard Times." The plaque near the hammer says, "In hard …
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Look what I learned to do about answering prostate cancer questions! A prostate diaries minute in its infancy? Ps….do you have a question for the podcast urologist? I only have a minute.
A podcast in response to a question: Should I have a biopsy for an elevated PSA if I have a bladder infection? Anyway...this podcast is a bit weird. I did it with a free recording software and a microphone that cost 8 dollars from Wal-Mart. So what do you expect? What in the world is …
notice that prostate cancer’s arms are the seminal vesicles…clever! “he ain’t that bad”
Who exactly is Movember?
holy bloody mess batman!….the bleeding scrotum capo…i mean caper…tmi?
Guitar Capo-Or as my mother used to say, " Necessity is the mother of invention." When I was a urology resident I had to do a research paper on Fournier's gangrene. I got somehow the original article on the subject by Mr. Fournier himself. It was in French and much to the chagrin of the chairman …
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Phrases people search on google about prostate cancer that end up on prostate diaries week ending 4/09
The picture is of our cat Annie, the night before she died of renal failure.The search phrases are from the week prior to today- and an "insider's look" at what gets people to a particular blog. Lockerbie Plane crash 24 prostate diaries 9 famous men with prostate cancer 7 nanoknife 6 marias river 5 cnn and …
Sexual function after one is treated for prostate cancer has a lot to do with the level of sexual function “before” the treatment, regardless of the type of treatment chosen.
Prostate cancer doesn’t mean no sex life April 7 2011 at 11:15am By Anna Hodgekiss Comment on this story REUTERS Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber Related Stories Early detection is still the best cure for cancer Early hair loss doubles prostate cancer risk What’s behind my flagging libido? Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber last week revealed he’d …
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