Category: General Prostate
Could BPH be Prostate Cancer’s Natural Enemy?
If you have an enlarged prostate due to benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), you may have several reasons to be unhappy: Interrupted sleep from having to get up to pee Difficulty starting to pee More frequent urges during the day Slow stream or dribbling when you pee, etc. None of this is any fun. You wonder, keep readingTo Beam or Not to Beam? That is the Proton Question
There was a time when proton beam therapy seemed to be the “Holy Grail” of prostate cancer (PCa) treatments. In 1990, the Loma Linda University Medical Center became the world’s first hospital-based proton beam treatment center, making this treatment available to all cancer patients. A decade later, the New York Times reported that proton beam keep readingHow to Get a Lot of Attention by Claiming to Cure Cancer
If you want to stand in a scientific spotlight, you have to have a great act. What act could be grander than curing cancer? Not just any cancer, but all cancer. Not at some vague future date, but next year! This is exactly what an Israeli development-stage biopharmaceutical company did. On January 28, 2019 the keep reading
Only YOU Can Prevent Your Own Cancer
If you’re old enough to remember Smokey the Bear (or Smokey Bear, as he was actually named) you certainly remember the famous slogan, “Only you can prevent forest fires.” Image from “The Orphan Cub” at https://smokeybear.com/en/smokeys-history/story-of-smokey Smokey was an orphaned baby bear caught in a 1950 New Mexico wildfire. He was rescued, his burns eventually keep readingTwo Ways to Treat BPH by Blocking Blood Supply
Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) is an aging-related, noncancerous enlargement of the prostate gland. The exact cause is not yet known, but it is theorized that testosterone plays role (e.g. men whose testicles were removed before puberty do not get BPH). I will return to this theory in a bit. The problem with BPH BPH is keep readingExercise, the Gift of a Long and Healthy Life
What's good for the heart is good for the prostate—and promotes a long life with high health quality. The proof bears this out in abundance... keep reading
The Harsh Economics of Prostate Cancer
Over the years, I have written on various topics related to prostate health. The obvious ones include prostate cancer (PCa): how to detect, diagnose and treat it without wrecking quality of life and masculinity, nutrition, exercise, stress management, and even new drugs like metformin and rapamycin that were developed for other conditions but turn out keep readingMRI Imaging to the Rescue: Better Prostate Cancer Diagnosis
“For the last 40 years the prostate’s been unusual in that we’ve been interrogating men who were at risk of prostate cancer with a random needle deployment of the organ, which we don’t do in any other organ systems in relation to cancer. I think we always knew it was unreliable, and that the diagnosis keep readingMore Than One Prostate Cancer in a Single Prostate?
Multifocal prostate cancer In the not-too-distant past, medical schools taught young urologists that all prostate cancer (PCa) is multifocal – scattered throughout the gland. The belief was, “If you find it in one place, it must also be in other places even if undetectably small.” As a result, they carried this belief into their clinical keep reading
