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Letter of the week: Help a local chef in his fight for life Readers • The Desert Sun • July 25, 2010 My father, Alberto Sabatino, has been a local chef in the desert for the past 20 years. He was diagnosed with an aggressive stage of prostate cancer a few months ago. A resident …
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Charles B. Huggins Prostablog post on L.B. A few nuances about prostate cancer and hormone therapy. Hormone suppression does not cure prostate cancer. It will allow a person to live longer. Whether you start hormone suppression early on in the disease or later has very little affect on the ultimate life expectancy. Different prostate cancers ( …
Men less likely than women to go to the doctor You’re not sick till your MD says so, so males steer clear of checkups The below article is fact...men go to doctors less likely than women. In the case of prostate cancer, a rectal exam complicates a difficult situation further. You won't see this written …
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Five reasons the prostate is the “Rodney Dangerfield” of organs…it gets no respect. “I’m not a sexy guy. I went to a hooker. I dropped my pants. She dropped her price.”- R.D. The reason why the prostate doesn’t get any respect has a little to do with the very nature of the organ and its …
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In a particularly harried situation, one sagging breast said to another: If we don't get some support soon...we are going to be nuts!
If all you have is a hammer...the whole world is a nail. My brother Bob once sold used cars. It was always humorous to him how customers would come in with cost comparisons that had been obtained from either another dealership or the internet. The customer, in my brother’s view, almost always had a false …
Bud Abbott was diagnosed with prostate cancer shortly after breaking his hip in 1972. Because he died of the disease two years later the fracture may have been a pathologic fracture i.e. weakened bone because the prostate cancer had spread there. He was 79.
None of the various penile rejuvenation, I mean rehabilitation protocols have been proven to work. In the case of post-prostatectomy ED how a particular patient will do depends on if the nerves were spared. So any study trying to figure out if a penile rehab program works would need to know the status of the nerves. You …
A couple of things: First of all, reports of the famous and their " battle with prostate cancer" is a bit deceiving. Here it states that James Brown was treated for prostate cancer in Atlanta and is in remission. What does that mean? I looked all over for details. If I had to guess, he …
10 reasons why I should be a guest on the author segment of The Colbert Report #10---I can pronounce it the right way…kolbear Rappor #9----I am an author and have a book to discuss and my book is number one on Amazon....(if you search urology/medical book/prostate cancer/the decision/mchugh/ and the color of my hair, birthdate, …
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