Medical insight, personal stories and humor from a urologist who has been where you are now.
The following youtube video with monkhouse telling a joke on himself having prostate cancer reminds me of another one.... A patient is sitting in front of the doctor and is told, " Well Mr. Smith, I have some good news and some bad news. Which do you want first?" The patient says, " Give me …
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Why does this keep happening?- Is the anti-screening and anti PSA rhetoric perpetuating the myth that all prostate cancers are slow growing and don't kill? The article says,"diagnosed with incurable prostate cancer." How can that be? Richard Ablin PhD. where are you? Former Newcastle owner Sir John Hall has incurable prostate cancer • 'It's another battle …
Several years ago I told a patient of mine that my favorite car growing up was the Mustang. We lived in Columbus, Georgia in the 60's and remember as if it were yesterday the day the Mustang came out. I was in third grade, we'd never seen anything like it. We had a game, "spot …
I must be missing something. First you have the guy that discovered PSA saying it has done more harm than good on the very website that he tells us his father died of prostate cancer and presented too late for treatment and then died a year later. Then I find out about a delightful and …
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Everywhere you look today there is an article about Avodart curing cancer, causing high-grade cancer, hiding cancer and as alluded to yesterday on this blog, sparing men from that nasty ole PSA and all the harm it perpetrates on the unsuspecting male. What is Avodart? Well it is like Proscar and like Proscar grows hair, …
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On one hand the critics of PSA don't like it because men are diagnosed with non aggressive disease and subjected to debilitating treatments. Along comes the use of Avodart that disguises the less aggressive form of prostate cancer and increases of the more aggressive prostate cancer. If you have been reading all the problems about …
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PSA Cancer Screening, Much Like a Seat Belt, Is a Wise Choice for Men Prostate test saves lives by catching the disease when it's still curable By Patrick C. Walsh Posted December 1, 2009 Patrick Walsh, a professor of urology, is a former director of the James Buchanan Brady Urological Institute at Johns Hopkins Medicine. …
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Frank Zappa was diagnosed with prostate cancer in his fifties and succumbed to the disease in three years. Frank Zappa From Wikiquote Jump to: navigation, search Frank Vincent Zappa (1940-12-21 – 1993-12-04) was an American musician, composer and satirist. This person article needs cleanup. Please review Wikiquote:Templates, especially the standard format of people articles, to …
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This was off a post on twitter- theintegretyinstitute.org. Simple to the point and I feel makes sense. What is right recipe for early detection? Awareness and reasonable screening as a team effort of the patient and doctor. I examined a 65-year-old man this week with a very large prostate nodule that came back on biopsy …
If you twitter check out the Bob Monkhouse page- " When I told them I was going to be a comedian, they laughed. No one is laughing now." Now that is good stuff!Monkhouse was married twice, to Elizabeth Thompson on November 5, 1949 (divorced in 1972), and then to Jacqueline Harding on October 4, 1973. …
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