Prostatediaries on Twitter Do you know what TwitterFeed is? Well, I figured it out. You take every news service on the internet that has both a RSS feed and has a feed dedicated you prostate cancer and....viola! They are all automatically feed into your Twitter account. Daily I am amazed at what I learn from …
Can you get cancer from having sex with a man who has prostate cancer?…Part Two-response to a comment.
North Georgia is known for being in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains and for the small streams associated with that. The state fisheries department "stocks" the streams with Rainbow trout that they raise at various hatcheries. The state then takes them by truck and empties the fish into the small streams at bridge …
PSA and Prostate Cancer: A Fool with a tool is still a fool? I am an advocate of getting one as a baseline in the man about 40 or so, then every two years with the GP’s exam.
You might disagree about PSA's and when and who they are done on...but about 5 times a year a 50 year old man comes into my office for his "first" rectal exam and PSA and it determined that he has asymptomatic advanced prostate cancer. Is it cost effective, are some being checked that are normal. …
Diet and Prostate Cancer…In golf they say a “hook won’t listen to a damn thing you say.” To “our chagrin?”
"don't nobody love you like your mother".....jennie cooperWhen I first started this blog about a year ago, the first thing I noted about tooling around the internet for subject matter was the emotion and angst out there about prostate cancer. People using terms like "money hungry urologist," "money making companies at the expense of patients," "how …
prostate cancer decision making: what’s good for the goose may not be good for the gander-a prostate cancer podcast
Don't make your prostate cancer decisions based on what "other people" did unless you know "all" about the specifics of them and their disease. "A word to the wise is sufficient."
question about prostate cancer….high Gleason’s / low PSA…..how can this be?
burn me once... shame on you...burn me twice...shame on me When tumors are described by way of its differentiation, i.e. well differentiated, poorly differentiated, what they are talking about is how close or how far away is from a normal one. In prostate cancer the Gleason's score is a way to describe how a …
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holy bloody mess batman!….the bleeding scrotum capo…i mean caper…tmi?
Guitar Capo-Or as my mother used to say, " Necessity is the mother of invention." When I was a urology resident I had to do a research paper on Fournier's gangrene. I got somehow the original article on the subject by Mr. Fournier himself. It was in French and much to the chagrin of the chairman …
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CNN and Vasectomy March Madness at Northeast Georgia Urological Associates Gainesville, Georgia.
CNN visits Dr. John McHugh's Urology practice for a Health Minute on March Madness and Vasectomies. The scene with the patient pretending that he is hurting actually occured minutes after the vasectomy. Vasectomies are customarily performed on a Friday so that the patient has the weekend to recover prior to returning to work on Monday. …
the art of “getting away with it”, prostate cancer and Lorenzo Q. Squarf (you couldn’t pay to have a name like that!)
The "art of getting away with it" is a favorite medical saying of mine. If I remove a ureteral stone and don't place a stent and risk extravasation of urine into the patient's retroperitoneum and the patient does just fine....what does that mean? Does it mean that I was brilliant, used seasoned medical judgement, or …
Prostate Cancer Blog search question: PSA at 5, prostate removed thirteen years ago. What’s wrong?
The PSA is variable when used in the diagnosis of prostate cancer. It can be low and someone have cancer, it can be high and not have cancer. It can go down with antibiotics and a person could still have cancer (this happened to me). So the use of the PSA in the diagnosis is …
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