Medical insight, personal stories and humor from a urologist who has been where you are now.
The later you pull a tube the later you have to come back to deal the negative consequence of that action. http://prostatediaries.podbean.com/mf/web/b47yfj/WitandWisdomChapterOne.mp3 https://prostatediaries.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/pb140124.jpg?w=300
Careful for what you wish for.
Think about how Round Up works on grass. Sometimes it doesn’t kill all the grass and sometimes grass grows back where you used it.
“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 why I loved my mother so. So real and uncensored. She was the best. Period!
So to the question: Will the urgency get better after radiation.
In my book I make a big point of saying that every prostate cancer patient should know what the prostatic urethra is. Do you know what it is and why it is important? The prostatic urethra goes away with a radical prostatectomy. The prostatic urethra is irritated with radiation and the reason why patients have urgency, frequency, getting up at night and not making it to the bathroom after…
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I just want to be lucky.
A woman's intuition and the "male mastectomy".
72. (From "101 Aphorisms, adages, and illustrations for the urological resident.") A Silk Purse out of Sow’s Ear When it comes to advising a patient to have an inflatable penile prosthesis placed, you’d better make sure it is the last resort. I don’t care how hard, or not hard, they push you to skip …
Do your research to take the fog out of the decision making! Ps...that should be a lake behind Penelope.
Designer diapers?
don’t punish a child for bed wetting….even the lowliest of animals will not sleep in their own urine….
I ‘m the one in the blue diapers- When it comes to prostate cancer treatment decisions the likelihood of cure is only one of the factors to take in consideration. ps…I made the diapers out of the corner of the envelope the card came in….clever huh?
05 Feb 2013
Prostate Cancer Study Tracks Long-term Urinary, Sexual and Bowel Function Side Effects Following Therapy
A new study comparing outcomes among prostate cancer patients treated with surgery versus radiotherapy found differences in urinary, bowel and sexual function after short-term follow-up, but those differences were no longer significant 15 years after initial treatment.
The study, led by first author Matthew Resnick, M.D., instructor in Urologic Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, was published in the Jan. 31 issue of…
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This Gleason’s is not funny!
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 — it would never have lead to their death or even caused any symptoms. But they may still be treated for these cancers, either because the doctor can’t be sure how aggressive (fast growing and fast spreading) the cancer might be, or because the men are uncomfortable not having any treatment.
I have read many times on various respected organizations websites that “doctors don’t know which prostate cancers are slow-growing and which are fast growing. Granted there are some Gleason 6’s by virtue of their location at the seminal vesicles that act aggressively…but in general…
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Prostate Diaries 
