The Sperling Prostate Center is pleased to join seven academic centers in announcing the results of our national clinical trial of a novel focal prostate cancer treatment. keep reading
Chronic inflammation can occur in the body without your even being aware of it—and it's estimated to be the cause of up to 20% of all cancers. How to minimize this potentially deadly condition? keep reading
Prostate enlargement unpleasantly restricts urine flow...but the very same enlargement may also cause BPH to restrict prostate cancer tumor growth... keep reading
By: Dan Sperling, MD One of the problems with the conventional 12-core TRUS biopsy (transrectal guided ultrasound) has to do with the array of needle placement. It tends to miss cancers in two instances: a) cancers located in the anterior (front) zone of the prostate are easily missed, and b) tumors that have developed in keep reading
By: Dan Sperling, MD In 1826, a Frenchman named Anthelme Brillat-Savarin published a text on gout from which we derive the quote, “Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are.” A century later, a 1923 newspaper advertisement for beef preceded the same sentiment with a word of caution: “Ninety percent keep reading
Your risk of getting prostate cancer will not reduce if you don’t do anything about it. Sure, there are certain treatments that you can give a try, but as they say, “prevention is always better than cure”. Keep your prostate healthy by including the right foods in your daily diet. Tomatoes do the trick Tomatoes keep reading
By: Dan Sperling, MD Prostate cancer patients seeking an alternative to surgery or radiation are attracted to treatments that are minimally invasive (less pain, rapid recovery), repeatable if necessary, and able to be done focally (fewer side effects). Of course, not everyone will qualify for a focal treatment, but patients who require a whole-gland treatment keep reading
Compared to the conventional biopsies done on prostate cancer patients, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) paired with prostate biopsy has enhanced cancer yield up to three times. This is a procedure available at our prostate cancer detection and treatment center, giving patients access to a powerful and precise method of detecting prostate cancer. Researchers have discovered keep reading
By: Dan Sperling, MD This year’s annual meeting of the American Urological Association (Orlando, FL) brought numerous papers and presentations on multiparametric MRI (3T mpMRI) of the prostate. I interpret this to mean that the value of radiologic imaging for the detection, diagnosis and guided treatment of prostate cancer has gained considerable—perhaps even definitive—recognition by keep reading
By: Dan Sperling, MD I have to credit the content of this blog to a fellow blogger. He is the Sitemaster at The “New” Prostate Cancer Infolink[i], a site dedicated to informing prostate cancer patients about their disease and their options, as well as other facets of living with prostate cancer. Although the posting I’m keep reading
By: Dan Sperling, MD Perhaps because I am a radiologist, I have been asked by prostate cancer patients whose urologists are recommending proton beam or IMRT if radiation can cause rectal cancer. In a sense, this is a tricky question because there is a difference between “causality” and “correlation.” Radiation is everywhere around us. Here keep reading
By: Dan Sperling, MD Did you know that, according to one study, more than 50% of men diagnosed with prostate cancer turn to complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) as a health resource?[i] And the same study reports that many of them do not even tell their doctors. Men who take vitamins, minerals, herbs and other keep reading
By: Dan Sperling, M.D. As I write this, I’m preparing to attend the 2014 Annual Meeting of the American Urological Association (AUA). As a radiologist who specializes in detection, diagnosis and focal treatment of prostate cancer, my work and that of urologists overlaps considerably. I have previously written about my commitment to professional collaboration between medical specialties, keep reading
