Month: August 2022

“Drink your milk, it’s good for your bones.” If your mother was like mine, a glass of milk was set at my place for many meals at home that I can remember. She was right, of course, about milk as a source of calcium necessary for developing bones. What she didn’t know, though, is milk’s keep reading

Your car’s check engine light is a big uh-oh. If it comes on, you probably groan internally. It means taking time out of your busy life to get to a mechanic who can put your car on a computer (possibly for a fee) to access a diagnostic code. But that’s just the first step. Now keep reading

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (UPSTF) is an independent panel of volunteer experts who are charged with the job of reviewing published evidence on health-related matters, making recommendations, and establishing guidelines. The only reason I have written about the USPSTF in the past is the issue of PSA screening for prostate cancer (PCa). This keep reading

When you bump your forehead, you get a small area that’s noticeably red, warm, raised and tender. These are four classic marks (redness, heat, swelling, and pain) of inflammation. Inflammation can be visible, like the goose egg on your forehead, or invisible, like accumulating injury to lung tissues from smoking. Another sign of inflammation is keep reading

No one can argue with the fact that the earlier prostate cancer (PCa) is diagnosed, the more treatment options there are, and chances for complete cancer control are improved. With this in mind, men are encouraged to get their PSA checked annually. If the test results in a suspiciously high or rising number, a doctor keep reading

Anxiety. Mental fog. Emotional Issues. Fatigue. If you knew the prostate cancer (PCa) treatment you’re leaning toward would lead to a long-term future with such problems, would you still choose it? A man newly diagnosed with localized PCa has to ponder numerous short- and long-term outcomes in order to decide which treatment path to follow. keep reading

Few things are more unsettling and stressful than a diagnosis of prostate cancer (PCa). It causes a state of anxiety. Each step of the journey sparks another wave of anxiety: suspicion, tests, diagnosis, choices, decisions, treatment, recovery, follow-up monitoring, and potential recurrence. These stressors trigger an immediate reaction: the fight-flight-freeze response. Most men can’t just flip a switch to let it go, but... keep reading

We’ve all heard the saying that no news is good news. It’s meant to be reassuring in the face of worry over an unknown outcome. The news must not be bad, because you would have heard if it were. When it comes to using multiparametric MRI (mpMRI) for Active Surveillance (AS) monitoring, a negative scan keep reading

What is successful aging? According to a 2018 article in Forbes, “The term successful aging was made popular in 1987, when the scientists John Wallis Rowe and Robert Kahn published an influential book entitled Successful Aging. Rowe and Kahn stated that successful aging involved three main factors: (1) being free of disability or disease, (2) keep reading

Anxiety before a conventional TRUS (transrectal ultrasound guided) biopsy of the prostate is normal and natural. It’s no surprise that the prospect of being diagnosed with prostate cancer makes men nervous. However, it may come as a shock to know cancer is often not the main cause of pre-biopsy jitters. For a lot of men, keep reading