Not the only decision making tool in your quiver, but an important one. 9/2013 Amazon Reviews: The Decision is the most helpful, clear and engaging book that I read about my prostate cancer. Dr. McHugh has gone through this himself, and his approach is from the perspective of both a urologist and a patient. …
All urologists want to do for prostate cancer is surgery, I mean IMRT-damned if you do damned if you don’t!
GAO Report: Rad Oncs Thumbs Up, Urologists Thumbs DownRoxanne NelsonAug 06, 2013A new report on physician self-referral abuse in prostate cancer treatment has been met with a decidedly mixed response. Although one group has applauded the report from the Government Accounting Office (GAO), 3 urologic associations have resoundly condemned it. The report found that physicians in practices that …
If they don’t want to pay for the psa and don’t feel prostate cancer should be treated then why all the fuss about new MRI fusion to detect?
High-Tech Prostate Scan May Boost Cancer Detection Combo of ultrasound and MRI zeroes in on tumors, helping some men avoid biopsy, experts say By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter FRIDAY, Aug. 16 (HealthDay News) -- An innovative fusion of MRI and ultrasound might be a better way to detect and assess prostate cancer, while helping men …
Fifty shades of prostate cancer: If you have your prostate removed for prostate cancer and the PSA starts to rise i.e. “My cancer came back.” Actually it really never left.
Search site for Partin's Table Search for extra capsular extension. The prostate cancer is outside of the prostate microscopically at the time of prostatectomy- Robot or not!
Did Vince Flynn die of prostate cancer because of too little screening or too much? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?
Search this site for Otis Brawley Search this site for Mr. Prostate Search this site for USPSTF RUSH: I want to tell you where I was yesterday. I attended the funeral for the author Vince Flynn in St. Paul, Minnesota, yesterday, and it was amazing. Three thousand people at a beautiful, beautiful Catholic Church, 3,000 …
A prostate cancer blast from the past…Opine won’t you?
A previous blog post about the "art of getting away with it" prostate cancer and those nasty mean ole urologists. Vince Flynn dies of prostate cancer at age 47.
Elvis Presley, prostate cancer and Graceland.
In August of 1977 my mother and I went to Columbus, Georgia to get me a stereo system. I had labored all summer both from the standpoint of working at a NAPA auto parts store and studying my options for the right system in a Service Merchandise Catalogue. A Pioneer receiver with the lowest watts …
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Another fifty shades of grey prostate cancer: Just because you chose one treatment and had a complication doesn’t mean you made the wrong decision!
Search this site for " Robert Frost- The road less traveled."
Shades of grey prostate cancer: Do know why the prostatic urethra is important both to surgery and radiation treatments?
Search this site for "prostatic urethra."
Prostate cancer rule# 5: Get a baseline line PSA before the age of 50.
Nearly Half Of All Deaths From Prostate Cancer Can Be Predicted Before Age 50 18 Apr 2013 A new design of screening could improve ratio between benefit and harms of screening Focusing prostate cancer testing on men at highest risk of developing the disease is likely to improve the ratio between benefits and the harms …
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