Here is a thought for you...So your PSA is high and you get a biopsy. The biopsy shows PIN. No cancer is seen. You are told, " Uh Oh...you have a higher percentage of having prostate cancer if we do another biopsy. So here is my thought. If you have the bad cancer or the very large volume …
Count how many times “discussion” is used. Rectal exam not necessary? May be done? Prostate cancer awareness/screening/early detection. Team Winter’s thoughts on the matter.
Another round about assault on the early detection of prostate cancer? Systematic "lowering the guard" of the unsuspecting male who sees this and rationalizes decision, after the discussion, not to be screened for prostate cancer. Is this all by design? When recent guidelines questioned benefit of the digital rectal exam in the early detection of prostate …
prostate cancer: how long does a six month LHRH shot last? who is buried in grant’s tomb? two similar questions with obvious answers but it is not quite that simple. think intermittent hormone therapy.
I live in the county so me and the chlompster, not to be confused with the dumpster, take the trash every Saturday morning. This dumpster is at my office and my thinking is if that I pay for it I can put personal stuff in it (this is much to the chagrin of our cleaning …
Question: Why would you castrate someone for prostate cancer? Because you don’t like them?
"A old man don't need his testicles....but they do tend to dress a fella out!" A previous Prostatediaries hormone discussion and history of "androgen deprivation" More about hormones and prostate cancer from a previous post When I was a urology resident at the Medical College of Georgia in the late 1980's if a man had …
The significance of the Gleason’s Score and why we “CAN” tell the difference between the slow growing and the bad kind in prostate cancer. The dirty little secret? You have to do the biopsy to know.
From the ASC Website Finding and treating all prostate cancers early may seem like a no-brainer. But some prostate cancers grow so slowly that they would likely never cause problems. Because of an elevated PSA level, some men may be diagnosed with a prostate cancer that they would have never even known about at all …
The Prostate CAncer gene 3 (PCA3) assay vs. the Free PSA….a prostate cancer title fight..”and in this corner…”
Decisions...decisions.... Sounds very straight forward to me. How about you? Not to pick on the American Cancer Society, but what if the discussion about whether to consider the PSA was the status quo in the diagnosis of breast cancer and mamograms? "Mrs. Smith. Before you consider a mamogram, it may be positive and that may …
Don’t “drink the koolaid” and don’t “eat the yellow snow.” When you put epidemiologists in charge of prostate cancer at the American Cancer Society this is what you get. This is from the ACS website…you cannot make this up!
The Red Sock-Be sure to read this and the comment that follows this post. Is it that the 10% of prostate cancer patients with the aggressive form of prostate cancer are "just not worth the time and money?" Spreading myths, lowering the public's and the male's guard, and for what reason? It must be for …
Don’t punish a child that wets the bed (enuresis)…even the lowliest of animals will not sleep in their urine–Prostate cancer incontinence: Men not bothered by it?
Happy Fourth From Prostatediaries After having had total incontinence for three months and wearing a condom catheter for that time…when one day I retained some urine I began to consider my incontinence future. When I got to where one diaper a day did the trick, I honestly felt that if it never improved anymore, …
Seventy percent of men have never had a rectal exam! What? Prostate cancer: The Rodney Dangerfield of diseases…It gets no respect!
Could it be that it is more about the "mentality of the male" more than about the disease itself? As I have said in the book, " The perfect storm: Story after story about the benign nature of prostate cancer (despite 25,000 deaths a year), an exam the male does not want and the doctor …
“The Decision” A Prostate Cancer Decision Guide By Northeast Georgia Urologist John McHugh M.D. – A Finalist In The Eric Hoffer Award For Health
Eric Hoffer Category Finalists After our rigorous first round of judging, less than 10% of the titles become category finalists. We consider this a distinction of its own merit and, in 2008, began officially listing these titles on-line. Finalists are selected by category scoring. There are typically 1-6 books per category selected as a …
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