Medical insight, personal stories and humor from a urologist who has been where you are now.
Is this not one beautiful and happy dog or what? We love our Chloe. The above question is good one. Reviewing the search items that get folks to my site are revealing and offer an opportunity to address issues that concern prostate cancer patients. When the urologist does a prostate ultrasound, it usually is used …
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The story later... I am in the middle and I have on "water resistent" L.L. Bean rain gear. I am soaking wet and lost. Mount Assiniboine Lodge Bill Brooks Columnist Calgary The 13th Annual Bill Brooks Prostate Cancer Benefit taking place Friday, January 21, 2011 at Hotel Arts promises to be the biggest …
Have you heard of the "no needle-no scalpel vasectomy?" The technology for the painless part is old but its application to providing needle free anesthesia for a vasectomy is relatively new. If you are of "vasectomy age" you should inquire about it before you choose a vasectomy, particularly if you are needle phobic. Prostate cancer …
Once you know that you are not "one in a thousand" that has the very aggressive form of prostate cancer at a young age, you can then can do the screening every two years or so. That's reasonable enough is it not Mr. Brawley? They recommend colonoscopies that way. Don't that ole prostate deserve some …
Recent comment/question on this blog I recently had a PSA of 17 and so saw a urologist and he ordered antibiotics for a month and another test. Tested the same and so he performed a biopsy with the 12 small cores you mentioned. Biopsy came back negative for cancer. I should mention there have been …
A story about a missed prostate cancer diagnosis. Suspicious for but not diagnostic of prostate cancer. I've told patients for years that the diagnosis of prostate cancer is an easy one to make for the pathologist. It is probably the most common biopsy they get on a day to day basis. I refer to it as …
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A popular search that ends up on my site is "condom catheter." Here's a primer and then a story about my experience with one. A condom catheter is a condom like device that is more sturdy than a regular condom and has a spout at the tip that in turn can be attached to a bag, usually …
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As a surgeon I have to often times dissuade patients from choosing surgery. You think I'm kidding don't you? Surgeons do it all the time. Radiation therapists also tell some patients that radiation may not be the best option for them. That I know is even harder to believe....just kidding. (It's a surgeon-radiation therapist thing.) Many …
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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 …
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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