Month: January 2024

We all know the warning cry: high cholesterol levels can increase your risk of heart disease. But there’s a quieter warning for men only: high cholesterol levels are linked with aggressive prostate cancer (PCa). That’s the message of a June 2023 paper by Liu, et al. published in the International Journal of Cancer.[i] The article keep reading

For the right prostate cancer (PCa) patient, Active Surveillance (AS) is a good thing. Urologic professionals now see eye-to-eye on monitoring with a focus on “preventing overtreatment in patients for whom the benefit of treatment deferral outweighs the need for immediate oncologic control.”[i] That’s a technical way of saying, if you don’t have clinically significant keep reading

“The Human Pincushion”. Back in 2016, I posted a blog in which I referred to the conventional TRUS prostate biopsy as a pincushion. Why? Because it involved at least 12 needles placed in a gland roughly the size of a walnut. Not only did this often entail pain, it came with risk of infection, blood keep reading

Have you ever felt lonely, empty, friendless? I’m sure at one time or another, each of us has found ourselves feeling alone and forlorn. Sometimes it’s brought on by circumstances, sometimes it’s the result of choices we’ve made. Even if it’s only temporary, it can be bleak and depressing. Men’s Health Week is an annual keep reading