prostate cancer podcast on post prostate biopsy checking for prostate cancer and subsequent provocative blood born infections…whew…say that three times!

A little disappointed in the Penelope...she refuses to play with the new puppies...try as they may...she shuns them. She is not mean, she just won't play. Chloe played with her, she played as a puppie with Toosie, she plays with Brudder and Bella....but ignores the new sibling Dachshunds.  Go figure...she may be getting "chloeised." Hey listen.....post prostate …

Prostate cancer musing…PSA is very reliable when following prostate cancer “after” treatment.

The leaves in Northeast Georgia have been particularly pretty this year and have hung around more than usual. The light comes through the trees behind Penelope about 5 everyday and are almost "illuminated" by the sun. I had a friend who happens to be a doctor call me to ask me some questions about his …

Breaking News…USPSTF declines PSA testing on Egyptian Mummy with Metastatic Prostate Cancer!

Just kidding....too funny to pass up. Where is the USPSTF when you need them? We can do MRI's on 2000 year old Egyptians but don't recommend  PSAs on men in the U.S.A. Mummy Had History’s Second-Oldest Prostate Cancer Case By Heather Pringle, Science Now Some 2,250 years ago in Egypt, a man known today only as M1 struggled …

what’s less expensive-screening and finding prostate cancer early or just letting prostate cancer patients present too late to cure? It must be the latter.

I am currently listening to "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" and find the reference to Auschwitz "verdy interesting." (As Shultz of "Hogan's Heros" used to say. Welcome to “Love Your Prostate” This website was created by Douglas Gray (pictured) who was diagnosed with incurable Advanced Prostate Cancer in January 2009. Douglas passed away …

Northeast Georgia Urology Group in Gainesville, Georgia Seeking New Associate Urologist

Dr. Bill Jones will be retiring in May 2012. Northeast Georgia Urological Associates is actively seeking a BE/BC urologist to replace him. N.G.U.A. has a lot to offer both in terms of the practice and the Northeast Georgia Area. Active urological practice with 30 years of service in Gainesville and the Northeast Georgia area. Lake …

prostate cancer , colon cancer and no insurance…having no insurance was not the problem here…surprise?

I have no clue what in the hell the following is about other than whoever the writer is talking about has been diagnosed late with both colon and prostate cancer. How does that happen in the higher socioeconomic folks that have the means to at least to be aware of what you do to detect …

i am going to shout this….IF YOU GET A PSA TO CHECK FOR PROSTATE CANCER BECAUSE OF URINARY SYMPTOMS THEN YOU HAVE WAITED TOO LATE!

As I make very clear in my book...most prostate cancers form away from the tube that the male pees through...the prostatic urethra. If one's prostate cancer is to the point that the urinary stream is small or affected in any way by prostate cancer, then that cancer is extensive and it is too late for …

Is the internal sphincter important to post prostatectomy continence in the treatment prostate cancer?

What is the internal sphincter in regards to the male bladder, post prostatectomy incontinence and the external sphincter?" Hmmmmmmmmmm? If the internal sphincter is so important to continence then why don't men leak after a TURP? Dr. Catalon's explanation of post prostatectomy anatomy and continence. There  was  a comment about the internal sphincter and a patient …

Hmmmmm…what do the doctors who actually treat prostate cancer patients (urologists) think about the PSA and the USPSTF?

Until there is a better widespread test for this potentially devastating disease, the USPSTF – by disparaging the test – is doing a great disservice to the men worldwide who may benefit from the PSA test. - AUA AUA RESPONDS TO NEW RECOMMENDATIONS ON PROSTATE CANCER SCREENING Association urges men to speak with their physicians …