The decision of the USPTF (or whatever the hell the letters of this little government group of nonclinical doctors who will decide who will get treatment for prostate cancer-it is not going to be good my friend) in saying that the government will not pay for a prostate cancer screening and PSA's is a slap …
How the urologist is like a car salesman when it comes to prostate cancer decision making. There’s an art to both professions.
What a week. Monday morning and off to work in my wife’s old 96 Chrysler van that I have been driving for about 10 years or so because she didn’t want it any more. It made a loud sound when you turned the steering wheel, which I admit was a bit obnoxious, and she …
Prostate cancer diagnosed too late to cure…how can this be?
So look at the two things below- a comment and an article. The diagnosis of prostate when it is too late to cure occurs in 1 in 25 men. So if 250,000 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer a year in the U.S. then the number who have metastatic disease at diagnosis is 10,000. Do …
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Happy Birthday Jennie Cooper! The photo of The Beatles crossing Abbey Road taken on August 8th 1969. No Beatle has prostate cancer…yet.
Abbey Road Live Cam-I am mesmerized by this. My wife and our three children were visiting my mother and grandmother one holiday at my childhood home at 103 N. Lewis St. in LaGrange, Georgia when the children were young. The house is one block off the square in LaGrange, across the street from the …
My protective love of tomatoes must have been overcome by my love of southern sweet tea: result prostate cancer.
So I am camping with my son's scout group and a father I was assigned to be in the same tent tells me that he loves sweet tea. "Is that so?" I ask. "Yes, love it. I have it everyday for lunch no matter where I am," he says. He tells me he was a …
two kinds of prostate cancer: the good kind and the bad kind – the john mchugh kind and the frank zappa kind-Provenge anyone?
"That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore" Park the car at the side of the road you should know time's tide will smother you and I will too when you laugh about people who feel so very lonely their only desire is to die well I'm afraid it doesn't make me smile I wish I could laugh …
Prostate cancer decision making based on a biopsy…a potential pitfall for surveillance therapy.
Summer is a good time to be a urologist in Georgia. Here's how it goes. An older patient comes in and has a tan. I ask, " How is your garden this year?" The response, " The tomatoes are just coming in." I say," I'll do half the work. You grow them and I'll help …
Who is a survivor and what exactly is battling prostate cancer?
Life, Interrupted: Am I a Cancer Survivor? By SULEIKA JAOUAD Seamus McKiernan. It was the annual fund-raising event for the Hope Lodge, my temporary home after a bone marrow transplant. The host asked all the survivors to step forward from the crowd. I froze. I didn’t know if that word applied to me. What does …
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What song is on the flip side of the Beatles “Let it be?” Prostate cancer blog wants to know the name.
Okay then....who played the sax for the song? The song by the Beatles on the flip side of "Let it be" circa 1970 has always been a favorite of mine , but most likely most of you have never heard it and if you did and even if you claim to be a Beatle affectionado …
Prostate Cancer: Do you need to have a second opinion…on the biopsy path report?
About the above picture...there is no way that Penelope could not be chosen for a calendar. Is she beautiful or what? Second opinion on a prostate biopsy to be sure that a positive finding is indeed prostate cancer? Been there done that? What I did was to ask for additional stains to prove it was …
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