Month: January 2024

No doubt you are aware that many toxic substances are associated with higher cancer risk, and when there’s definite evidence of causing cancer, they are called carcinogens. For example, several national and international bodies have linked Agent Orange with prostate cancer (PCa) and numerous other cancers or cancer precursors. However, there are studies that suggest keep reading

Differences between male and female are both debated and celebrated. The Bottle Rockets sang, “Now everybody knows there’s a difference/Between a woman and a man.” John Gray’s book Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus quickly soared to bestseller status. And the French immortalized the declaration vive la difference! (long live the difference!) For keep reading

What does an MRI of the prostate have in common with surgery or radiation treatment for prostate cancer (PCa)? The answer is the importance of skill. A specialist’s skill makes a difference. “The specific specialist that a patient sees can have a large influence on the type of care they receive.”[i] While bedside manner appeals keep reading

Metastatic prostate cancer is considered incurable. There are new chemotherapies, PCa vaccines and immunotherapies that can add months to a patient’s life. The disappointing news is that mPCa eventually overcomes these treatments—and for many patients, the side effects can be harsh. Now there’s Pluvicto, an intravenous treatment that delivers a radioactive punch to individual mPCa cells... keep reading

“How to handle a woman?” sings King Arthur in the Broadway musical Camelot. The king is perplexed by a seemingly eternal puzzle: what do women most desire? In fact, it’s the very question addressed in the medieval legend of how handsome Sir Gawain came to marry the ugliest hag on earth—and how his correct response keep reading

Have you ever fantasized about starring in a movie? Did you imagine the fame and fortune that comes with being featured on the silver screen? Ceremonially pressing your handprints into the concrete in the sidewalk outside Grauman’s Chinese Theater? Well, I can’t make you a Hollywood idol, but I have a hot tip that will keep reading

A new study out of MD Anderson Cancer Center and University of Texas Medical Branch tells a cautionary tale: “men with prostate cancer are at risk for competing morbidity and mortality from age-related cardiometabolic diseases.”[i] This sounds pretty scary. Why would having prostate cancer (PCa) be connected with higher risk of illness and death from keep reading

Starting over a decade ago, I collaborated on research into MRI imaging features that lend themselves to Artificial Intelligence training sets for the detection/diagnosis of prostate cancer (PCa). As an early AI contributor, I’m always happy to learn how other PCa physicians integrate AI into their practice. I was delighted when CancerNetwork (home of the keep reading

Magnetic resonance imaging is obviously sensitive to magnetized substances, and a particular form of iron, an iron oxide called magnetite, is now being used to produce such particles. When they are coated with special polymers, the result is a fine powder that can be blended with liquid and injected into the body. Certain types of healthy cells take up the particles... keep reading

Benjamin Franklin is quoted as saying nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes. Perhaps he didn’t include aging because a) at the time of his death in 1790 the average male life expectancy was 38, or b) he led a rich and vigorous life almost till his death at age 84 keep reading