If you can’t get patients to stop wanting to be screened for prostate cancer…just call it something else. Brilliant!

So this is what it has come to. Patients are not smart enough not to "fall" for being treated for prostate cancer. So let's change the name. One way or the other the NIH, the HHS, the USTFPF (or whatever) will figure out a way not to pay for prostate cancer screening. They are a clever bunch. And who …

Gainesville’s Northeast Georgia Urology Group To Give Away a Big Green Egg to Lucky Vasectomy/Vasectomy Reversal Patient

Any patient having a vasectomy or vasectomy reversal at the Northeast Georgia Urological Associates from now until the Super Bowl (Feb. 5) will have a chance at winning a Large Green Egg. If you have been considering a vasectomy or vas reversal now is the time to both recover while watching your favorite team and possibly …

When is a prostate nodule a nodule and do nodules always mean prostate cancer?

Question: I have a 70 yo friend with a strong fam hx of prostate cancer — his father died of it.  Despite a psa of 1.2, he recently had a nodule felt by his family doctor and his urologist on dre, which was followed by a biopsy that was negative — no cancer, and nothing else unusual …

Rectal swab culture to prevent infections after prostate biopsy in checking for prostate cancer? PSA screening all over again?

I ain't the best, but I'm blessed. So... over the last year and having done several hundred prostate biopsies...I have had about 6 or seven people get an infection. That's not many, but it is a dramatic thing for the patient dealing with it. Usually they are fine for a day or two and then …

how to use the prostate cancer blog prostate diaries-an informative yet slightly irreverent and eclectic guide for the prostate cancer patient.

The leaf from a distance looks like Penelope's tongue doesn't it? Don't over cogitate about me being a urologist or that I have a book on amazon about prostate cancer. If it were not for the book there would be no blog. Before I had written the book I pretty much had never gone on …