What is Gleason's score?-Click Here Here's the thing...if you want to have your prostate removed because you've been told you'd be "done with it" that might not necessarily be true. If your cancer is Gleason's 8 and you elect to remove the prostate there is still a significant chance you'll still need radiation. Knowing this …
Prostate Biopsy-Have it your way!
The link below is to one of the most popular posts on Prostate Diaries. The comments reveal a wide range of unpleasant experiences patients have had during and after a prostate biopsy. In my practice I am fortunate in that I own a Surgery Center and we do the vast majority of our prostate biopsies …
Things a urologist has learned about prostate cancer from the internet.
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Do urologists practice what they preach…about PSA screening?
from Medscape.com BOSTON — Physicians who routinely treat prostate cancer are "very likely" to undergo PSA screening themselves or recommend it to immediate family members, concludes a survey-based study presented here at the American Urological Association (AUA) 2017 Annual Meeting. In total, 784 (90%) of the 869 physician respondents endorsed past or future screening …
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Prostate cancer decision-making…I wish we still had xtranormal animation.
This is actually quite informative. I put this together in 2011. I hope you enjoy and possibly share with someone newly diagnosed.
When is a prostate cancer patient…cured?
Urology Times Opines on the Subject
Happy Valentines Day… from Mr.Prostate.
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Prostate cancer: Something to think about.
The following is a comment to a previous post- Who regrets prostate treatment worse... I did my due diligence after diagnosis at age 54 and decided on surgery first, salvage radiation in case of recurrence. Because I was well informed, my oncologist/surgeon was extremely honest and blunt. With my high PSA (40.98) and short doubling …
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Ben Stiller on wrong side of Psa debate? Mr. Psa says,”Why is everybody always picking on me?”
Ben Stiller’s misguided prostate cancer recommendations aren’t based on evidence-healthnewsreview.org No it is based on examining the risks of the disease and the risks of the treatment and making a decision he felt was best for him. Regardless of your position on Mr. Psa 30,000 men a year die of prostate cancer. How is that? …
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