Medical insight, personal stories and humor from a urologist who has been where you are now.
From The Decision: a small amount of cancer got out of the prostate before the treatment got there, so it never really left at all. Patients often ask about the cancer coming back. If the prostate is removed and the cancer is already "silently" in a lymph node or just outside the prostate, then …
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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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Dogs making the diagnosis of prostate cancer. Could a urologist be taught to sniff as well? And to think...I have been posting pictures about dogs on a prostate cancer blog site for a year now. Who'd a thunk it?
Rosamond Johnson Search questions on my blog offer a nice glimpse at the issues that concern prostate cancer patients. Here's another one. Probably not. After you have been treated, the PSA which is a bit erratic before the treatment of prostate cancer, is very accurate in determining the recurrence of prostate cancer. If your PSA …
Another top search that gets people to this blog. They all want to know about Elizabeth Thompson, his first wife. Monkhouse on dying of prostate cancer Monkhouse, Albin, Bixby, Zappa, Folgelberg-What do they all have in common? These are the type of patients early detection and "early awareness" are trying to find. The top ten Bob …
A guy goes to a urologist because of difficulty with sexual function. The urologist greets him and then escorts him to a room. " My nurse will be in, in a moment." The attractive and provocatively dressed nurse enters the exam room, undresses the patient and then "does things to him." "Wow" the patient says. …
Have you heard of the "no needle-no scalpel vasectomy?" The technology for the painless part is old but its application to providing needle free anesthesia for a vasectomy is relatively new. If you are of "vasectomy age" you should inquire about it before you choose a vasectomy, particularly if you are needle phobic. Prostate cancer …
Previous post addressing the issue. Be sure to read the link to Walsh's explanation.
Read the following report see what you think about the quotes and conclusions of Mr. Montgomery's surgery. I read for my wife the article and she asked, " So, he will never need another PSA will he? The doctor said he was cured right?" Report of Eddie Montgomery's Surgery and Prognosis
When the prostate is removed, the bladder is separated from the urethra (the tube that runs through the penis which men void through). After the prostate is out, the doctor then sews the two areas back together. It takes about 7-10 days for this to heal. A catheter is placed through the tip of the penis in …
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