Month: March 2022

What do these terms have in common? ✓ Sexual adjustment ✓ Masculine self-esteem ✓ Unmet sexual supportive care needs Chances are, prostate cancer (PCa) patients treated with radical prostatectomy (RP) will discover that those terms, and others, commonly apply after their surgery. For some, such challenges are resolved within 6-12 months after treatment. For others, keep reading

There is universal agreement among prostate cancer (PCa) experts, educators, and support organizations that second opinions matter greatly. This applies to your biopsy slides, imaging results, and recommended treatment options. Authoritative sources offer consistent wisdom. For instance: The American Cancer Society urges all cancer patients to seek at least one other viewpoint. “Getting a second keep reading

When something is described as cost-effective, what does that mean? According to the Merriam Webster Dictionary, it indicates the thing or action produces good results without costing a lot of money. There is no question that multiparametric MRI (mpMRI) of the prostate, performed on a high-power 3T magnet, produces good results. In fact, when interpreted keep reading

Yoga for prostate cancer? It all began with the side effects of radiation treatment for prostate cancer. External beam radiation may be the right treatment for certain patients, but it can have downsides because it affects healthy cells as well as the cancer cells. keep reading

When two people have a loving partnership and one of them is diagnosed with cancer, it’s as if they are both slammed by a semi-truck. Although one is the patient, as a couple they are interdependent. This means that over their history of togetherness, be it short of long, they have developed sensitivities to the keep reading

“Look before you leap.” This moral is from a fable called The Fox and the Goat. Its author was an ancient Greek storyteller named Aesop. Though his life is obscure, his legendary fame is based on his tales of animals that have charmed kids while also teaching practical lessons. The Fox and the Goat teaches keep reading

I was very interested in a new study about cancer survivors and the need for exercise. The article I found in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) applies just as much to prostate cancer (PCa) survivors as any other cancer—and that includes our patients whose focal disease was treated with Focal Laser Ablation keep reading

Urologist Bert Vorstman MD continues to be “a keen observer of the state of prostate cancer.” 1 During an interview for the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), he made some observations in which he did not mince words... keep reading

When it comes to diagnosing localized prostate cancer (PCa), there’s the old world and the new world. Localized PCa means the disease is still contained in the prostate gland at the time of treatment. This knowledge is a crucial key to wise treatment decisions, especially radical treatments aimed at removing or destroying the entire gland. keep reading

Six years ago, we posted a blog about the PROMIS study, which delivered a one-two punch to conventional TRUS biopsies. That blog described a planned follow-on British study that would combine mpMRI with diagnostic biomarkers, in hopes of identifying men whose prostate cancer is so low-risk as to avoid a needle biopsy, and who can be safely monitored. To launch the study... keep reading