Medical insight, personal stories and humor from a urologist who has been where you are now.
The article below is one of the few times I have actually seen written the concept of a low PSA and prostate cancer. Why is it important? Because often times men will have a physical exam by their family doctor and everything is checked but the prostate by rectal exam. (Remember the article that stated …
Continue reading "A low or normal PSA and still have prostate cancer? You bet!"
First off all...look at the sentence I highlighted in bold. Are you kidding me? Concerns about a CT scan and radiation all the while finding no complaints regarding treating the prostate cancer with radiation regardless if it's seeds, Proton, or external beam. The use of "misuse" is an attention getter is it not. We have known for years …
Patients often choose their treatment for prostate cancer not by which has the best cure of the cancer rather which treatment best blends cure with the risks. Prostate cancer differs in this regard from most other cancers and why many prostate cancer men choose radiation. Dirty little secret: patients understand and full well know the …
Continue reading "Five reasons not to have a robotic radical prostatectomy for prostate cancer."
men are not prisoners of fate...they are prisoners of their own minds.....FDR- that's a 1966 Ford Mustang-289-original body style John...nothing you drive has an airbag...a lot of people depend on you...buy a new car! The Five Reasons:You don't have radiation in your body the rest of your life.You don't have radiation in your body the rest of …
This article caught my eye because of a story a week or so ago about the GPs in the U.K. and Australia coming out against PSAs and rectal exams in the 40-year-old male. Same old argument...the likelihood of finding a cancer is low, too many men treated, costs, wouldn't have made a difference etc etc blah blah blah. For this to really interesting to …
Continue reading "What do Pathologists know about prostate cancer that the Australian GPs don’t?"
Podcast on the Partin Table and the Gleason 8-9 patient. Who are you? http://prostatediaries.podbean.com/mf/web/5q9wj2/partintablesandprostatecancer.mp3
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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