Category: General Prostate Information

Is the Sky Falling? Worrisome Trends in Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment Patterns

Did you ever hear the folktale about Chicken Little, who was hit on the head by a falling acorn? He wanted to warn the king – and everyone else – that “the sky is falling!” The story and its many age-old variants satirizes people who are unduly alarmed and spread exaggerated rumors. However, three recent keep reading

New Study Finds No Link between Hormone Therapy and Dementia

Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT, also called hormone therapy) is a strategy of biochemically controlling prostate cancer (PCa) by depriving it of testosterone. It is used in cases where Radiation or ablation is planned and the doctor needs to “shrink” the prostate gland to increase the effectiveness of the treatment PCa had already escaped the gland keep reading

Don’t Be the Victim of Prostate Cops

When you’re cruising along in good health, it’s easy to take that smooth road for granted. An annual physical with a PSA is a little like stopping at a red light and waiting till the light changes. When the physical ends, you figure it’s a green light and leave the office, expecting to go on keep reading

Prostate Cancer: Family History and Focal Laser Ablation

At the Sperling Prostate Center, we believe family history matters, and patients who have a hereditary history of any kind of cancer, especially first degree relatives deserve special counseling. keep reading

Prostate Cancer: How Treatment Affects Men Who Have Sex With Men

The vast majority of published literature on prostate cancer (PCa), and also patient advocacy websites, often seem to overlook the needs of minority populations. Differences such as genetic vulnerability (suggested by higher incidence and death rates for African American men) or ethnic differences in male identity and how men relate to their bodies are not keep reading

Too Fat for Active Surveillance?

I have written on the importance of a healthy lifestyle, especially diet and nutrition, which is correlated with preventing prostate cancer (PCa) and other diseases. (NOTE: You can read some of my related blogs from links at the end of this one.) I came across a new multi-center Italian study that addresses the question: does keep reading

“Nutty” Diet Change Improves Prostate Cancer Survival Rates

Four thousand five hundred seventy-seven prostate cancer patients can’t be wrong. At least, a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) reported some interesting findings after tracking that many men with non-metastatic prostate cancer between 1986-2010. Those men who replaced 10% of their total daily calories from carbohydrates with healthy fats from keep reading

“Nutty” Diet Change Improves Prostate Cancer Survival Rates

Scan Abuse and How to Avoid It

Sadly, prostate cancer (PCa) patients with low-risk disease are still being sent for needless diagnostic bone and CT scans. This was the finding of an impressive multi-disciplinary research team from several institutions (U.S. Veterans Administration and various medical and public policy departments within New York University and Yale University). The investigators found that nearly keep reading

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