Prostate cancer question: Describe significant PSA pre and post prostatectomy,nanoknife,proton beam,HIFU,radiation therapy.
This was a comment/question a few days ago....this issue is confusing but I think I can simplify it-here goes. The ongoing debate about the PSA has to do with pretreatment decision-making. The PSA is often times elevated before the diagnosis of prostate cancer is made for many reasons other than prostate cancer. So some want …
sex and prostate cancer…some caveats.
Common searches about sex that end up on my site and some other various tidbits for you... Having sex the night before having a PSA drawn can elevate the value. Having sex before the Prostatic Acid Phosphatase will probably elevate the value. A rectal exam before having the PSA drawn will not elevate the value. …
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A podcast excerpt of a story at the end of "The Decision." I bet you didn't think I knew that much about diapers did you?
Are you a Internet Only prostate cancer patient?
Podcast on Internet Only type of patient. After examining a patient one day (PSA and rectal exam) he asked if that was all I was planning to do to him to check for prostate cancer. I said that what I had done was enough for now, the prostate felt fine and the PSA would be …
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prostate cancer, Jerry Okungu and frank zappa-deja vu all over again…and again and again and again…what is the answer?
Otis Brawley: I have never had a PSA and do not desire one. I have had relatives with the disease. I just do not believe it saves that many lives. SEER data show that a large proportion of so called early detected patients with pathologically localized disease (the best prognosis one can have) ultimately relapse …
Nicely put Tubby Smith…reasonable recommendations about prostate cancer early detection and “male awareness. He said “cancer free” he did not say cured…and that’s a big difference.
Tubby Smith says he had prostate cancer, now cancer free 6:56 AM, May 12, 2011 | MINNEAPOLIS -- Minnesota coach Tubby Smith says he's "feeling great" and free of prostate cancer after dealing with the disease for the past year. The university issued a statement from Smith on Wednesday. The 59-year-old had not previously revealed …
warning!!!/// newly diagnosed prostate cancer patient….to listen does not mean you have to heed….
Podbean thoughts on "sapping up" all you can from everyone before you make your "decision."
Diet and Prostate Cancer…In golf they say a “hook won’t listen to a damn thing you say.” To “our chagrin?”
"don't nobody love you like your mother".....jennie cooperWhen I first started this blog about a year ago, the first thing I noted about tooling around the internet for subject matter was the emotion and angst out there about prostate cancer. People using terms like "money hungry urologist," "money making companies at the expense of patients," "how …
prostate cancer: no voiding symptoms don’t mean no cancer
The above illustration is from "The Decision" now the number one book on Kindle for the subject of prostate cancer on amazon.com "But I don't have any voiding symptoms doc." "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing." Podbean podcast prostate diaries.......minute on the subject and this silly and trite objection An interesting question on Podbean
Prostate Diaries 