No. 123 Doctors, Pigs, and Incrementalism incrementalism (noun): A policy or advocacy of a policy of political or social change by degrees: gradualism. I was thinking about all of the intrusions into the lives and the profession of physicians by the government, insurance companies and hospitals and this joke came to mind. Most everything reminds …
That mean ole conniving PSA…he’s worse than Mr. Prostate Cancer!
Things a doctor would not do....have a prostate cancer test PSA is a "simple" blood test to check for prostate cancer. Know what it stands for? Prostate Specific Antigen. Or rather, as many doctors will tell you, Persistent Stress and Anxiety. Prostate cancer is far more common – and, usually, less serious – than most …
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Prostate cancer and Eugene, Oregon…what? Question: Are you tiring of Prostate Cancer Survivor Stories?
Eugene, Oregon Prostate Cancer Survivor Story For about 15 or so years in late August I'd go out west to hike and fish with the fellows pictured above. The above picture is from the Golden Trout Wilderness in California but I want to tell you a bit our trip to Eugene, Oregon home of the …
The USPSTF approves PSA testing in Bald men for prostate cancer…just kidding.
A bald patient of mine a few weeks ago told me, " I don't waste my testosterone on hair!" Do bald men face higher risk of prostate cancer? Updated: May 22, 2012 3:01 PM EDT © iStockphoto.com By Barbara Bronson Gray HealthDay ReporterTUESDAY, May 22 (HealthDay News) -- Got hair? If you don't, you …
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What does Newt Gingrich, Hillary, Orange Beach, The FloraBama, and Prostate Cancer have in common? Nothing, just something to get you to read this post!
I grew up in LaGrange, Georgia which is on the Alabama-Georgia line. West Georgia, Troup County, I went to LaGrange High School, the same school as my mother went to in the late 1930's. If you follow the Chattahoochee River (I once spent about 12 hours on an inner tube floating the river from Carrollton to LaGrange. I …
Urologist abandons prostate cancer patient after making him impotent…
The patients I see with prostate cancer and who are considering their options have done a whole bunch of research "before" they have seen me and then even more after they have been given the diagnosis. It is hard to imagine that after that research and particularly after speaking to other patients who have been …
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Are you smarter than a fifth grader…about prostate cancer?
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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Being diagnosed of prostate cancer when it is too late to cure and dying of prostate cancer in one’s prime…Deja Vu all over again!
I remember when it was announced that this guy had prostate cancer. It is always interesting to me and sad that a person with the money, education, resources is diagnosed late with prostate cancer when it could have been so easily prevented and then dies in a year or so. How tragic. And yet all we read …
If an elevated PSA goes down after antibiotics does that mean you don’t have prostate cancer?
Well...I see patients all the time who have had an elevated PSA in the past and their family M.D. put them on 2 weeks of Cipro and then had the PSA repeated. Often times the PSA will go to normal and the family M.D. will then repeat a PSA at say 6 months. Often …
Is staging necessary in low to intermediate risk prostate cancer? Are we talking about me or are we talking about everybody else?
First off all...look at the sentence I highlighted in bold. Are you kidding me? Concerns about a CT scan and radiation all the while finding no complaints regarding treating the prostate cancer with radiation regardless if it's seeds, Proton, or external beam. The use of "misuse" is an attention getter is it not. We have known for years …
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