Month: October 2021
How Can Liquid Biomarkers Reduce Prostate Cancer Overtreatment?
“There is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong.” This quote from humorist H. L. Mencken might well apply to the latest government recommendation regarding PSA screening. Since its development and wide availability starting in the late 1990s, this simple blood test has undoubtedly saved the lives of hundreds of thousands keep reading
MRI Is Changing Prostate Biopsy
A couple of years ago I saw a patient who previously had three negative TRUS-guided prostate biopsies. Because his PSA had been slowly rising from 4 to 10, the number of biopsy needles had increased from 10 to 12 to 14... keep reading
Can a Simple Dietary Supplement Cure Prostate Cancer?
Word is spreading fast that a dietary supplement called 4-MU can stop prostate cancer (PCa) in its
tracks. Stories like Fox News Health’s “Dietary Supplement May Prevent and Treat Prostate Cancer,
Study Says,” and the bulletin from the... keep reading
Testing PI-RADS Accuracy
The blog below about PI-RADS v1.0, predated a revision, PI-RADS v2.0 by a year. Four years later another revision, PI-RADS v2.1, offered more specific descriptions and definitions in order to improve agreement among readers. Recent studies tested PI-RADS v2.1 compared with v2.0. keep reading
Anti-Inflammatory Drugs May Help Prevent Prostate Cancer
In one sense, the greatest cure for cancer is to keep it from happening in the first place. Your local drugstore may be the source of inexpensive products that help protect men against prostate cancer such as... keep reading
How to Use a Medical “Group Mind” to Train Artificial Intelligence
No one is born knowing the names of all the objects around them. We learn them as parents, older siblings and others show us the object and say its name, or point to things in picture books and repeat the word that matches it. We learn words like cup, ball, shoe, bunny, blanket for items keep reading
Does an Ancient Plant Remedy Really Cure Prostate Cancer?
Black salve. Black ointment. Bloodroot capsules. Organic bloodroot extract. Do any of these sound familiar? Have you tried any of them? Numerous preparations based on sanguinaria, or the bloodroot plant, are capturing attention due to such claims as... keep reading
10 Helpful Strategies to Coping with Prostate Cancer
It’s human nature to do certain things to be able to cope and manage difficult situations. Coping styles vary — from a sense of spirituality to talking to a therapist to distractions via work or hobbies. Although these strategies are inherently different from one another, they all have a common purpose... keep reading
