Youtube Prostate knowledge through humor A physician friend called me about an issue with a patient of his this past week. I answered his questions and I then asked, " How is your PSA?" " John, it's been about four years since I have had that or a rectal exam." I said, "Do me a …
Prostate cancer humor and the dreaded rectal exam- an exam that the male does not want and one that the doctor can easily be persuaded not to do.
From the "Decision"- The perfect storm. "So the perfect storm: common misconceptions that give men a false sense of security, an exam they do not want to have done, and the resultant flawed rationalization to skip a prostate evaluation. All of these factors contribute to missed opportunities for early detection."
robert frost, prostate cancer, the decision and the road not taken…
two paths but only one traveler can you be- with prostate cancer treatment decisions you have to do your homework, know your disease and make a decision. once you have "traveled down that road" of the prostate cancer decision, you can't go back. that's why its such a hard decision. in the last stanza " …
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surgical management of prostate cancer has come along way since Langston Hughes
Photo by Consuelo Kanaga Langston Hughes James Langston Hughes was born February 1, 1902, in Joplin, Missouri. His parents divorced when he was a small child, and his father moved to Mexico. He was raised by his grandmother until he was thirteen, when he moved to Lincoln, Illinois, to live with his mother and her …
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“I can’t control the prostate cancer. I can control how I look at it.”
The following youtube video with monkhouse telling a joke on himself having prostate cancer reminds me of another one.... A patient is sitting in front of the doctor and is told, " Well Mr. Smith, I have some good news and some bad news. Which do you want first?" The patient says, " Give me …
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Another person that would have benefited by prostate cancer awareness and screening.
Why does this keep happening?- Is the anti-screening and anti PSA rhetoric perpetuating the myth that all prostate cancers are slow growing and don't kill? The article says,"diagnosed with incurable prostate cancer." How can that be? Richard Ablin PhD. where are you? Former Newcastle owner Sir John Hall has incurable prostate cancer • 'It's another battle …
Prostate cancer, the genealogy of “a little knowledge” and the used car salesman
I must be missing something. First you have the guy that discovered PSA saying it has done more harm than good on the very website that he tells us his father died of prostate cancer and presented too late for treatment and then died a year later. Then I find out about a delightful and …
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prostate cancer guru or fool? please comment-where is he now?
The Prostate Lab http://www.prostatelab.com Disclaimer : The following does not represent the opinion of Dr. Oppenheimer, the Prostate Lab, or any other potentially liable party. Sometimes you just have to take the responsibility yourself. Lorenzo Q. Squarf Flamekeeper of Western Civilization -Understanding the Game -Playing the Game -Two years later -- [quavering voice] "I am …
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Prostate cancer is so so sensitive…to testosterone…hormone sensitivity 101
Everywhere you look today there is an article about Avodart curing cancer, causing high-grade cancer, hiding cancer and as alluded to yesterday on this blog, sparing men from that nasty ole PSA and all the harm it perpetrates on the unsuspecting male. What is Avodart? Well it is like Proscar and like Proscar grows hair, …
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new post-prostate cancer-you can’t have it both ways
On one hand the critics of PSA don't like it because men are diagnosed with non aggressive disease and subjected to debilitating treatments. Along comes the use of Avodart that disguises the less aggressive form of prostate cancer and increases of the more aggressive prostate cancer. If you have been reading all the problems about …
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