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What is Gleason’s score? If you have been told you have prostate cancer and you don’t know…get a second opinion.

What is Gleason's score?-Click Here Here's the thing...if you want to have your prostate removed because you've been told you'd be "done with it" that might not necessarily be true. If your cancer is Gleason's 8 and you elect to remove the prostate there is still a significant chance you'll still need radiation. Knowing this …

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Do urologists practice what they preach…about PSA screening?

  from Medscape.com BOSTON — Physicians who routinely treat prostate cancer are "very likely" to undergo PSA screening themselves or recommend it to immediate family members, concludes a survey-based study presented here at the American Urological Association (AUA) 2017 Annual Meeting. In total, 784 (90%) of the 869 physician respondents endorsed past or future screening …

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Don’t know much about Tesla MRI… Don’t know if the prostate cancer I got will make me die…

I'm reading a book about Edison suing Westinghouse in the late nineteenth century and the development of alternating current. The Serbian who "conquered" alternating current was a idiosyncratic man named Nikola Tesla. It is very interesting however I am in love with the nineteenth century and the men and women of history of that era. …

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Ben Stiller on wrong side of Psa debate? Mr. Psa says,”Why is everybody always picking on me?”

Ben Stiller’s misguided prostate cancer recommendations aren’t based on evidence-healthnewsreview.org No it is based on examining the risks of the disease and the risks of the treatment and making a decision he felt was best for him. Regardless of your position on Mr. Psa 30,000 men a year die of prostate cancer. How is that? …

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