In a particularly harried situation, one sagging breast said to another: If we don't get some support soon...we are going to be nuts!
When it comes to prostate cancer decision making…It’s all about you!
Pt's often ask their doctor, " What would you do if you were me? or as it pertains to prostate cancer, "What would you recommend if I were your father?" I am also frequently asked, " What would you do if it were you?" (Most patients that I see and particularly the newly diagnosed prostate cancer patients don't …
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“Who are you” trumps more prostate cancer information regardless of the format.
I think this is a very reasonable study. The newly diagnosed prostate cancer couple should all of the resources available to them to make " The Decision." All of the factors play a role in the ultimate choice. What the multi-media doesn't address is that before a patient and family can choose anything they must …
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When it comes to whether you should choose prostate cancer surveillance or not…Well, how big a boy are ya?
He adds that, in general, 15 to 25 percent of men whose initial biopsy shows a low-risk prostate tumor will actually have a high-grade cancer upon further review of the entire prostate once it is removed. So...how big a boy are you? It seems to me that some patients wear the decision to pursue …
Of prostate cancer, post treatment ED, worms, Larry Munson, and a joke.
This is a picture of one of my sons when I lived in Augusta, Georgia in the early eighties. He is in a little garden I had behind our house on Ellis Street. I have always had a garden and have always had " home-grown" tomatoes in the summer. " Ain't nothing like em." It …
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How about live rectal exams at baseball games? Dr. Oz where are you?
The story of Michael Milken: His investment history, the trial, prison stint, getting prostate cancer and then turning all that into PCF and subsequently the relationship with MLB is truly something to marvel at. If you haven't already, the Wikipedia history is very interesting to read. I can't wait to see how they are going to decorate …
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Anything that raises awareness of prostate cancer is good. Men need an “awareness gene” like women have.
It's a funny thing. I think there are two types of men when it comes to medical care and particularly prostate cancer awareness. One set of men I see are patients who are all over the disease. They are aware of family members that have had prostate cancer, they may have a wife that is very proactive …
Did you know this about prostate cancer? Volume 1.
Did you know? From " The Decision" · You have a higher incidence of bladder or rectal cancer after having received radiation. · Frank Zappa, Bill Bixby, and Dan Fogelberg died in their fifties from prostate cancer, all within three years of diagnosis. · One in six men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer at …
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Used cars and prostate cancer and bias…the doctor and the patient can both be biased.
If all you have is a hammer...the whole world is a nail. My brother Bob once sold used cars. It was always humorous to him how customers would come in with cost comparisons that had been obtained from either another dealership or the internet. The customer, in my brother’s view, almost always had a false …
ten things that patients make a decision on what to do about their newly diagnosed prostate cancer on the wrong premise….. Oh what men do… what men do daily…what men dare do not knowing what they do…. Shakesphere
chloe, pepsi, the van, the lake, and a mophead hydrangea...these are some of my favorite things.....Mary Poppins? There are so many nuances and particulars about prostate cancer and the treatments and the aftermath... that very few people " get." So..... let me let you into the " informed and enlightened" circle. In order: Concepts that the …
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