Medical insight, personal stories and humor from a urologist who has been where you are now.
I hope you'll find the list below helpful. These are the most common search terms that end up on this site. It gives you some insight as to what's on folk's minds. Far and a way the winner here and each day is prostate nodule followed by prostate pain. My guess is that the man …
Continue reading "Fifty shades of grey…I mean prostate cancer"
In the picture above we all have on our hiking gear and this is probably a shot just before locking the car and beginning the hike, when we thought we were really going to go hiking. All the shirts so nice and clean, the boots, sunglasses, camera, rain gear, socks and sock liners that wick...yes …
Continue reading "Hot tubs linked to prostate cancer…well everything else is!"
So when we left off we were looking at a map and on one side of the river is a road and on the other a red dotted line indicating a hiking trail. The impression was that the red line was far enough from the road line that the group would have it both ways, …
Eugene, Oregon Prostate Cancer Survivor Story For about 15 or so years in late August I'd go out west to hike and fish with the fellows pictured above. The above picture is from the Golden Trout Wilderness in California but I want to tell you a bit our trip to Eugene, Oregon home of the …
I absolutely loved my sometimes imperfect mother. I don't care about this or that or stuff my father said as to why he divorced her and ran off with a "hussy" to Alaska as my grandmother described the situation. She smoked, quit college, joined the Coast Guard during WWII and then had five boys and …
Continue reading "The greatest generation, heaven, and nothing to do with prostate cancer."
Just because a treatment of the prostate is fancy or new doesn't mean it's better. Just because the names are cool...."cyber knife" wow....and on and on....Don't feel like you have to "chase" the new treatments or the desire to "be one of the first ones done." I had a resident friend who would be asked …
There was an article on the PCA3. I have used it and it is a useful adjunct in the patient with an elevated PSA and he is hesitant to do a biopsy on the PSA alone. Being Black, having a family history of prostate cancer, symptoms help in this regard. The free PSA and the …
Gainesville, Ga is pretty good place to live. North Georgia is considered the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. From various points in around Gainesville, besides views of Lake Lanier, you can see the mountains north of our town. The mountains that surround Dahlonega, Wakua Mountain near Clermont, and of course Mount Yonah near Helen are …
Continue reading "John Roebling, Prostate Cancer, the PSA and Atlas Shrugged."
someone i used to know Something to listen to while you read. I think there is a way to do it. Ayn Rand ever heard of her? Years ago a Plastic surgeon friend of mine gave me the audiobook of the her book, "Atlas Shrugged." I don't read. I listen to books. I've listened to hundreds, mostly historical …
Continue reading "Atlas Shrugged and PSA and Prostate Cancer? Really? Mountain Bike Riding?"
Any recommendation by any government group only has meaning or impact because it has to do with what government funded programs will pay. So in the case of dogs and because there is no "Doggiecare" any USPTF dictums will not apply...yet. SPOTLIGHT: Resilient dog survives prostate cancer Friday May 25, 2012 5:15 AM DEBRA PRESSEY The …
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