Search site for Partin's Table Search for extra capsular extension. The prostate cancer is outside of the prostate microscopically at the time of prostatectomy- Robot or not!
Did Vince Flynn die of prostate cancer because of too little screening or too much? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?
Search this site for Otis Brawley Search this site for Mr. Prostate Search this site for USPSTF RUSH: I want to tell you where I was yesterday. I attended the funeral for the author Vince Flynn in St. Paul, Minnesota, yesterday, and it was amazing. Three thousand people at a beautiful, beautiful Catholic Church, 3,000 …
A prostate cancer blast from the past…Opine won’t you?
A previous blog post about the "art of getting away with it" prostate cancer and those nasty mean ole urologists. Vince Flynn dies of prostate cancer at age 47.
Elvis Presley, prostate cancer and Graceland.
In August of 1977 my mother and I went to Columbus, Georgia to get me a stereo system. I had labored all summer both from the standpoint of working at a NAPA auto parts store and studying my options for the right system in a Service Merchandise Catalogue. A Pioneer receiver with the lowest watts …
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Another fifty shades of grey prostate cancer: Just because you chose one treatment and had a complication doesn’t mean you made the wrong decision!
Search this site for " Robert Frost- The road less traveled."
Fifty shades of grey and prostate cancer: Not all prostate cancers are alike.
Just cause your buddy at work or your uncle Harry chose one particular treatment and did great dont mean you will. You gotta know specifics.... Gleason's , PSA , rectal exam, path report, voiding pattern, underlying health, personality and family situation. That's right- personality...Why is that important?
Prostate cancer rule# 5: Get a baseline line PSA before the age of 50.
Nearly Half Of All Deaths From Prostate Cancer Can Be Predicted Before Age 50 18 Apr 2013 A new design of screening could improve ratio between benefit and harms of screening Focusing prostate cancer testing on men at highest risk of developing the disease is likely to improve the ratio between benefits and the harms …
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Don’t make assumptions regarding prostate cancer decision making.
"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
What’s the difference between a radical prostatectomy and a Greenlight Laser prostatectomy?
A lot of patients will come to my office after a positive biopsy of the prostate and after weeks of research tell me they have decided to have their prostate removed by the "laser." Well with all the stuff out there it stands to reason that things can get confusing. The only laser treatment for …
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 …
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