Medical insight, personal stories and humor from a urologist who has been where you are now.
No symptoms...does it matter? Low PSA...does it mean no cancer? Big prostate...means cancer? Small prostate means no cancer? Surgery better than radiation? Proton better than regular "ole" radiation? Age over 75-is surgery best? Do you have a higher incidence of impotence with cryosurgery? Why do they only do Proton on the well-mod prostate cancer in …
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"A old man don't need his testicles....but they do tend to dress a fella out!" A previous Prostatediaries hormone discussion and history of "androgen deprivation" More about hormones and prostate cancer from a previous post When I was a urology resident at the Medical College of Georgia in the late 1980's if a man had …
Podbean thoughts on "sapping up" all you can from everyone before you make your "decision."
Prostate cancer doesn’t mean no sex life April 7 2011 at 11:15am By Anna Hodgekiss Comment on this story REUTERS Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber Related Stories Early detection is still the best cure for cancer Early hair loss doubles prostate cancer risk What’s behind my flagging libido? Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber last week revealed he’d …
Had to get that "moustache dreadful picture of my hair off the main page of the previous post. A nurse of mine asked," Are those plugs?" The answer to the question posed above: Drum roll please...... Yes you can have sex the morning of a prostate biopsy Yes sex before a PSA will make it …
Companies, media organizations join Georgia Prostate Cancer Coalition to launch pledge campaign 4. December 2010 04:54 Prostate cancer is a serious health concern in Georgia. According to the American Cancer Society, the state of Georgia ranks 11th in number of estimated deaths per capita from the disease. In an effort to raise awareness about prostate …
orators become dumb... when beauty speaketh-shakesphere Okay...one more time. sex drive is called libido and is dependent on testosterone testosterone is not affected by removing the prostate testosterone is produced by the testicles and gets into the body through the blood stream independent of the prostate potency is the ability to get an erection an …
Proton-photon...it's all the same to me…. Comparing the two as it relates to the treatment of prostate cancer. Iceberg-Feinberg it's all the same to me. Commentary on Proton therapy-Cost and "bang for the buck" concerns. Did you know that for some prostate cancers a photon is better than a proton? I have asked a physicist, who I …
Rush Limbaugh weighs in on the Breast vs. Prostate debate the prostate and prostate cancer….the rodney dangerfield of cancers and organs June 26, 2010 by John McHugh M.D. | Edit budding urologist with incontinence-author circa 1959 Five reasons the prostate is the “Rodney Dangerfield” of organs…it gets no respect. “I’m not a sexy …
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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