Medical insight, personal stories and humor from a urologist who has been where you are now.
If you have obstructive voiding symptoms (slow stream, hesitancy, getting up at night, stop start stream, decrease in caliber of stream) and want to do radiation as your treatment of your prostate cancer it is okay to have the prostatic urethra opened by the Greenlight laser before the treatment to prevent exacerbation of your voiding symptoms …
Continue reading "Greenlight Laser before radiation treatment for Prostate Cancer?"
If it's been radiated it ain't gonna heal right if you go a cuttin on it!
So I had my prostate remove for prostate cancer in 2007. And I have in one of my bathroom drawers ticket stubs from the the Braves World Series Games from back in 1991. (Man what a year for Atlanta-I went to every Atlanta home game and dammit we should have won it....Remember Terry Pendleton and …
Not the only decision making tool in your quiver, but an important one. 9/2013 Amazon Reviews: The Decision is the most helpful, clear and engaging book that I read about my prostate cancer. Dr. McHugh has gone through this himself, and his approach is from the perspective of both a urologist and a patient. …
GAO Report: Rad Oncs Thumbs Up, Urologists Thumbs DownRoxanne NelsonAug 06, 2013A new report on physician self-referral abuse in prostate cancer treatment has been met with a decidedly mixed response. Although one group has applauded the report from the Government Accounting Office (GAO), 3 urologic associations have resoundly condemned it. The report found that physicians in practices that …
High-Tech Prostate Scan May Boost Cancer Detection Combo of ultrasound and MRI zeroes in on tumors, helping some men avoid biopsy, experts say By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter FRIDAY, Aug. 16 (HealthDay News) -- An innovative fusion of MRI and ultrasound might be a better way to detect and assess prostate cancer, while helping men …
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!
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 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.
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 …
Continue reading "Elvis Presley, prostate cancer and Graceland."
Prostate Diaries 