Month: January 2016

• January 25, 2016
• Focal Treatment & Laser Ablation
• General Prostate Information

Prostate Cancer: Family History and Focal Laser Ablation

At the Sperling Prostate Center, we believe family history matters, and patients who have a hereditary history of any kind of cancer, especially first degree relatives deserve special counseling. keep reading

• January 17, 2016
• General Prostate Information

Prostate Cancer: How Treatment Affects Men Who Have Sex With Men

The vast majority of published literature on prostate cancer (PCa), and also patient advocacy websites, often seem to overlook the needs of minority populations. Differences such as genetic vulnerability (suggested by higher incidence and death rates for African American men) or ethnic differences in male identity and how men relate to their bodies are not keep reading

• January 11, 2016
• General Prostate

Multiparametric MRI Minimizes Biopsy Needles, Maximizes Accuracy

I recently posted a summary of an Italian study showing that MRI (mpMRI) was superior to other prostate cancer tests in terms of predicting the need for a repeat biopsy after a previously negative result. mpMRI is able to show if there is a need for another biopsy. This is happy news for patients, who dread having keep reading

• January 6, 2016
• Active Surveillance
• General Prostate Information

Too Fat for Active Surveillance?

I have written on the importance of a healthy lifestyle, especially diet and nutrition, which is correlated with preventing prostate cancer (PCa) and other diseases. (NOTE: You can read some of my related blogs from links at the end of this one.) I came across a new multi-center Italian study that addresses the question: does keep reading

• January 3, 2016
• Other Treatments

Post-prostatectomy Rates of ED Have Not Improved

I remember being at a medical convention about 10 years ago and overhearing a conversation between two doctors, specialty unknown, who were speaking positively about Dr. Patrick Walsh’s famous contribution, the nerve-sparing radical prostatectomy (RP). As I later learned, he first applied his technique in 1982, and the patient regained potency about a year after keep reading