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

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

Today’s world of prostate cancer is a far cry from what it was in your dad’s day. New knowledge about the disease includes a better understanding of prostate anatomy, prostate cancer genomics, the behavior of cancer cells, the role of lifestyle, etc. However, some old beliefs still linger. It’s time to put them to rest... keep reading