Okay...you get over the age of 50 and all of a sudden all of these weird skin spots start coming up all over your body and particularly your face. The sun exposed places, the disease of farmers. Looming in the background is the "M" word...melanoma. My wife posed an interesting question a few weeks ago, …
anything new in prostate cancer …. not really…same ole same ole…$2034.34 was how much it cost to fix the pos white
I went to a funeral yesterday and learned that the accident that led to the passing away of the person was complicated by a GMC brand car's air bag not deploying. My wife is a bit flummoxed by my getting the white van fixed. "Its got an air bag," I say. "The van is over …
Prostate cancer the Rodney Dangerfield of Cancers and Louis Prima’s Gigolos- Don’t nobody care for me
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 …
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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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 …
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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most common cancer other than skin? prostate cancer blog by northeast georgia urologist approaching 200,000 views.
Little ole doctor in the mountains of North Georgia and look at the numbers and places folks who come to this site for information since Feb. 2012. I am so glad that Al Gore invented the internet! Country Views United States 34579 Canada 3542 United Kingdom 3433 Australia 1977 India 473 Ireland 273 Germany 225 …
Big Baby Girl selected for Hall County Georgia 2013 Calendar-Louis Prima and what? Prostate cancer.
Collectively we have five dogs and I sent in about 20 pictures in hopes that one would be chosen for the Hall County Humane Society's 2013 calendar. The way I sized it up they probably would not choose Penelope because she won in 2011. Then there was Bella and Brother both rescued dogs and each …
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