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What’s the Most Effective Prostate Cancer Treatment?

You’ve probably heard the saying that a camel is a horse that was designed by a committee. It is a comic way of recognizing that groups of people with no unifying vision or systematic communication process are likely to fail at collective design. However, there is an effective antidote. It is an approach to gaining keep reading

Demythologizing the Gold Standard

We live in an age of medical specialties that “compete” for patients. In women’s health, for example, treating noncancerous growths called uterine fibroid tumors has traditionally been the territory of gynecologists. Gynecologists, like urologists, were trained in surgery so they often recommend hysterectomy (surgical removal of the uterus) as the gold standard for treating severe keep reading

Telling the Truth About Post-Radiation Sexual Problems

Radiation treatments for prostate cancer are used in many different forms, both beam radiation and seed implants: EBRT (External Beam Radiation Therapy IMRT (Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy) 3D-CRT (3D Conformal Radiation Therapy) SBRT (Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy) Proton beam Brachytherapy (radioactive seed implants, either permanent or a single treatment of high dose rate brachytherapy, or keep reading

MRI and The Magic 8 Ball

Within a few years after the blog below was posted, continued progress in multiparametric MRI (mpMRI) methods bolstered its ability to predict aggressiveness of prostate cancer (PCa) before biopsy. Technologic improvements have led to faster image acquisition and higher resolution images, in turn enhancing its predictive power. Now, to add even more predictive value... keep reading

BPH and Prostate Cancer: Is There a Connection?

BPH is not life-threatening, but it can certainly make a dent in quality of life. Some of my patients have asked if BPH can trigger or turn into prostate cancer (PCa). That’s a very good question. keep reading

“I Did It My Way”

One of Frank Sinatra’s most popular songs is “My Way,” and anyone who’s heard him sing it knows how he builds up to those last two syllables: myyyyyy waaay. When I chose medicine as my career path, part of what influenced me was my idealism. I wanted to help people by curing disease and easing keep reading

Quality of Life After Radical Prostatectomy

Suzanne Somers once remarked, “I appreciate health care that gets to the root cause of our symptoms and promotes wellness, rather than the one-size-fits-all drug-based approach to treating disease. I love maintaining an optimal quality of life – naturally.” Ms. Somers’ words capture what we all want: to stay healthy and preserve vitality of body, keep reading

Marketing vs. Research-Based Information

ASCO Connection is the official membership magazine of the American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO). In August 2014, the magazine carried an article by ASCO member Joel B. Nelson, MD (Chair of the Department of Urology at University of Pittsburgh). The title was “The Lack of Value for Robot-Assisted Radical Prostatectomy.”[i] Lack of value? That’s keep reading

Side Effects of Prostate Cancer Surgery and Radiation

A frequent concern of patients who come to our Center for focal laser ablation is the risk of side effects from whole gland treatments. Men commonly tell me things like: “I don’t want surgery because I don’t want to wear diapers, even temporarily.” “I don’t think the urologist is telling me all the facts about 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

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