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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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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 …
Regarding Prostate Cancer Decision Making- Does It Matter That You Can Do Radiation After Prostatatectomy But Not Vice Versa?
I mentioned the concept in my book, I think urologists (rightfully or wrongly) use it as a reason for patients to have their prostate removed, patients often use it as a justification to have the prostate removed, it probably pisses off and frustrates the radiation therapist....and that is the concept of: If I remove the …
How can one predict the need for radiation after having the prostate removed for prostate cancer?
If you are choosing to have a prostatectomy because "you'll be cured" Or if you think that you'll have the option of having radiation if cancer comes back Or if you think "well if I have the prostate surgery I can have radiation but not vice versa" Or if you think one or the other …
Does removing the prostate for prostate cancer or having a vasectomy make you less of a man?
Well what makes you less of a man...For the most part it is the male hormone Testosterone. The circulating levels of testosterone do not change after vasectomy or prostatectomy. A vasectomy does not affect erections. A prostatectomy and radiation do potentially negatively affect erections...so in that sense it may very well make someone less …
Are you “seeing” the total picture when it comes to “your” prostate cancer? And urology joke.
Wife to husband in front of bedroom chest of drawers mirror: "Look at me. Fat, bad hair, wrinkles, bad posture, drooping body parts, and old as hell. Honey, can you say at least one thing positive about me?" Husband to wife: " Your eyesight is excellent."
Prostate cancer and mushrooms…and to think my friends drank the tea to feel different!
Is not Penelope's hair with it's bluish purple tint when it's wet from swimming for sticks absolutely beautiful and unique? Mushroom tea in the seventies....who'd thought? Mushroom-supplemented soybean extract shows therapeutic promise for advanced prostate cancer (SACRAMENTO, Calif.) — A natural, nontoxic product called genistein-combined polysaccharide, or GCP, which is commercially available in health stores, …
Kermit the frog has never had a PSA or been checked for prostate cancer!
People do die of prostate cancer….it might not be “most” but men do indeed die of it my friend!
Well that depends on the definition of most is? Does 30,000 seem like a small number to you? Prostate cancer is mostly slow growing. Yes. Prostate cancer usually affects the old. Yes. Most people die with it instead of - of it. Yes. Do young people die of it? Yes. Are men diagnosed young and …
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