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Prostate Cancer Blog Prostate Diaries Tops 60,000 Views! It must be the dog pictures.
The things people search for (it is often a question that comes up "after" they have been diagnosed or treated for prostate cancer) that got them to this blog. This also provides for me a subject matter or topic for that day's post. "Like taking candy from a baby." Thanks to all for your …
urologists are biased about the treatment of prostate cancer…but not like you’d think.
Urologists are biased...sort of. Radiation therapists say we use "patient selection" to suit us.
Question: Can you see prostate cancer on ultrasound? If not why is it used?
When I come home from the river the "back way" I always go by this spot and try to take a picture of this tree and the mountain behind it through the window of my van. This is Skitts Mountain and when I pass it going home it is almost always is illuminated by the setting sun. …
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Good question! Does urgency improve after radiation? Northeast Georgia Urology
"John, don't let short-term gratification out weigh long-term gain." That's what my mother said to me many times and that is why I am a doctor. It is however not why I am a urologist. "Mom....this is John. I have decided to be a urologist." "Ye Gods John. Do you know what they do." Priceless and …
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Can you get cancer if you have sex with a man who has prostate cancer?
So...A dream I had as a child was a pool with a lap lane. I love to swim and when I was younger , I was actually quite the swimmer. I rarely lost a race in any stroke. There was a boy in Columbus, Georgia who regularly beat me...but no one else. I ruled …
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The number one tweet for March 1 in regards to prostate cancer. Superior test!
Superior test for prostate cancer. That's what she said! Scientists at the University of Surrey identified a protein called EN-2, which is only produced by prostate cancer cells. Studies show a test for the protein detects 60 to 70% of cancers. But the false positive rate - men who are wrongly diagnosed with cancer - …
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question: if the prostate cancer comes back after prostatectomy, do you have to use hormones “and” radiation?
My radiation therapist colleagues often recommend hormone therapy ( although this treatment is often referred to as "hormone therapy" actually they all take away the male hormone testosterone, so it should be "anti-hormone therapy) because they feel it potentiates the effectiveness of the radiation. It is clear that it helps in the unfavorable cancers, the article …
question:my prostate was removed-the psa went to .1 and now is rising.
This question comes up often and is an unfortunate situation. I thought of it myself as a possibility when I went through all I went through having my prostate removed. Think about it... the surgery, the catheter, the leaking, the sexual uncertainties and then the PSA begins to rise. The hell? Normal prostate tissue …
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Valentine’s Gift…A Prostate Exam? What ever happened to flowers and candy?
This will probably be TMI (too much information) but I think it will make a point nicely. When I was a urology resident in 1983, my wife was pregnant with our second child Bess. As a medical student, I had done a rotation in Savannah, Ga in obstetrics. I must have delivered about twenty babies and …
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