Medical insight, personal stories and humor from a urologist who has been where you are now.
I have had fun with the character in "Bored to Death" Ted Danson getting prostate cancer. I have learned a lot about the TNM staging system. It is confusing. I initially posted about that it was not "real life" to just tell a patient that he had Stage Two prostate cancer. That is a very broad statement. …
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I saw a patient recently as a second opinion regarding what to do about his newly diagnosed prostate cancer. "What is most important to you?" I asked. He said, " I want my very best chance of cure regardless of the side effects. I also want to be able to do something curative if the …
Bored to Death Recap: The Bubble Bursts Photo: Barry Wetcher/HBO Bored to Death SEASON The Gowanas Canal Has Gonorrhea! The third episode of Bored to Death’s second season gets off to a pretty sober start, as Sexy Urologist of a Certain Age tells George that he’s STD-free (yay!), but, alas, not stage-two-prostate-cancer-free (boo!). The good doctor …
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My sentiments exactly. This is different than what the American Cancer Society recommends. He did not mention diet or lifestyle as "major" risk factors.
There will blood places and that is normal. Blood at the tip of your penis, blood when you urinate, blood with bowel movements, and blood in your semen if you are sexually active. Blood is expected and rarely a problem and almost always limited in duration. As a rule, don't worry about the blood. Urology tip: …
Men prefer large breasts to enlarged prostates. Movember A new study has indicated that despite 1 in 6 men being diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetimes, men know less about how to monitor and prevent this condition than they know about what women should do to protect themselves from breast …
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I have had an ongoing dialogue with a radiation therapist friend of mine about " what is the most aggressive therapy for prostate cancer?" What would you say? To me the most aggressive thing would be to remove the prostate. In the diagram above, from "The Decision", shows that if the prostate cancer …
This link has a lot of good things and then a lot of incorrect statements about prostate cancer and the sexual aftermath of the treatment of prostate cancer. Be that as it may...it too enhances awareness and discussion and that is good. Can you find factual errors in the piece? If so put in …
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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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Manhattan Beach News Cancer survivor returns from nationwide awareness tripby Carley Dryden (Updated: Thursday, September 23, 2010 1:23 PM PDT) It’s one thing men just don’t want to talk about.When Robert Hess brings up testing for prostate cancer, most of his friends squirm.“Guys just don’t want to do it … but once they’re diagnosed, …
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