Medical insight, personal stories and humor from a urologist who has been where you are now.
The following was copied from a post on the American Cancer Society's Survivor Network. There are numerous lay members of these message boards that have been through the process and very conscientiously help other newly diagnosed cancer patients. If you have not visited a message board you should. You will be surprised by the candid dialogue …
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Factors that a urologist with prostate cancer used to make his " Decision." I am not advising that you make the decision I did. (That is the difference between this book and many others about prostate cancer.) I am advising that you make your decision the way that I did. It has to be done based …
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Manhattan Beach News Cancer survivor returns from nationwide awareness tripby Carley Dryden (Updated: Thursday, September 23, 2010 1:23 PM PDT) It’s one thing men just don’t want to talk about.When Robert Hess brings up testing for prostate cancer, most of his friends squirm.“Guys just don’t want to do it … but once they’re diagnosed, …
Palo Alto Medical Foundation Prostate Cancer Buddy Program- Watch....but watch with a "grain of salt." I have not watched this assortment of videos. Here is what I'd tell you as a patient and as a urologist about this if you choose to watch. People in general and patients in general tend to "romance" their treatment choice, …
This is the number on thing on Twitter today if you search prostate cancer. I've read it but don't quite get what I am supposed to glean from it. Dutch men are in the dark about the prostate? Here's the thing and why the American Cancer Society's stance on screening is potentially harmful: The problem …
In the picture above is my garage and my 1986 Toyota truck, my first air-conditioned car that I bought in residency in Augusta, Ga to use to moonlight in Millen, Ga for extra money. On the truck are our three cats, in order from right to left, Kitten, Annie, and Kibber. On the hood is Penelope as …
I adore tomatoes and I got prostate cancer. Go figure. " A favortie post from the past." (The post most commonly googled!) Masturbation and Tomatoes Post...another all-time favorite. If you are betting between a Gleason's 8 prostate cancer and lycopene......bet on the Gleason's 8. Tomatoes could offer hope to prostate cancer victims By Daily …
CyberKnife to me sounds like you are cutting something. That it is " robotically" controlled makes me think it may be something like a robotic prostatectomy. Proton therapy sounds different from radiation therapy. Is it? ProstatRicision sounds to me like something is being cut. "Radiosurgically treating something seems to me that if you use the word "surgical" that …
"Who are you" from The Decision Despite the " Catchy Title" what we in the business call a Proxy Headline, the following gives credence to active surveillance and at the very least....that the newly diagnosed prostate cancer patient had time to arrive at a well thought out decision. Here's the main thing and something often …
ONLINEATHENS.COM Doctor writes book as a prostate cancer survivor080310living1joe.vanhoose@onlineathens.com For some 20 years, Dr. John McHugh had watched his patients struggle with what to do after he told them they had prostate cancer. Doctor writes book as a prostate cancer survivor By Joe VanHoose - joe.vanhoose@onlineathens.com Published Tuesday, August 03, 2010 For …
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