The things people search for (it is often a question that comes up "after" they have been diagnosed or treated for prostate cancer) that got them to this blog. This also provides for me a subject matter or topic for that day's post. "Like taking candy from a baby." Thanks to all for your …
risk calculator for prostate cancer….would my numbers have changed anything? is this a circle and we end up where we were i.e. a certain percentage chance of prostate cancer? at what percentage does one “pull da trigger?”
"And the universe is a lot like the earth, if you go straight around you end up where you were, and the universe is a lot like the earth...." Modest Mouse So I put my numbers in the risk calculator and come up with a 41% chance of prostate cancer. The only abnormality or risk …
prostate diaries question: do urologists recommend active surveillance for prostate cancer? well….hell yea!
One of my heroes of all time is Will Rogers. If you have not read a book about him....do it. He is the best. He was a Rush Limbaugh of sorts in the early 1900's. My son, Sam is an Eagle Scout, and he and I hiked for two weeks in New Mexico at Philmont. …
“Mr. Smith I spared your nerves during your prostatectomy for prostate cancer.” As my mother would say,”Oh spare me!”
If you see the nerves better with the robot and "you spared them" why is it then that people still have erection issues? Why is that to date there is no better success rate shown by the robot vs traditional open prostatectomy? The following is quite good. Look at the next video...does it appear that …
CNN and Vasectomy March Madness at Northeast Georgia Urological Associates Gainesville, Georgia.
CNN visits Dr. John McHugh's Urology practice for a Health Minute on March Madness and Vasectomies. The scene with the patient pretending that he is hurting actually occured minutes after the vasectomy. Vasectomies are customarily performed on a Friday so that the patient has the weekend to recover prior to returning to work on Monday. …
Prostate Diaries Search Question:Why do I have to wait three months after prostate biopsy to have a prostatectomy? Think….Denonvillier’s and a surgeon adverse to risk.
Charles-Pierre Denonvilliers When a urologist does a prostate biospy, a ultrasound probe goes into the rectum much like a finger does to examine the prostate. So when a doctor examines the prostate he is feeling the prostate through the rectal mucosa. So when the biopsy is performed, the needle goes from the ultrasound probe, through …
CNN Comes to Northeast Georgia Urology for March Madness and No Needle No Scalpel Vasectomy
CNN's Heath Minute About Northeast Gerogia Urological Assoc. March Vasectomy Madness
Prostate cancer question for Prostate Diaries: Can you have sex the morning of a prostate biopsy?
Had to get that "moustache dreadful picture of my hair off the main page of the previous post. A nurse of mine asked," Are those plugs?" The answer to the question posed above: Drum roll please...... Yes you can have sex the morning of a prostate biopsy Yes sex before a PSA will make it …
The Lockerbie bomber, Gaddafi, oil, hillary and obama and what? Prostate cancer
Remember the uproar of the doctors missing the timing of the Lockerbie bomber and he was released to Libya to die in a predicted three months? No one at the time could figure out why such a missed diagnosis and what pressures Libya could possibly bring to bear on his captors to gain his release? Well...I …
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Question for Lorenzo Squarf and Terry Herbert of Yananow about prostate cancer-Let’s play doctor!
So I am out at the lake where the above picture was taken and I have DSL and a laptop I recently purchased to leave out here and I was assured by the computer guy that it was fully loaded with Microsoft Word. So I do the blog stuff, walk my dogs to the steps …
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