Category: Prostate Cancer

“There is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong.” This quote from humorist H. L. Mencken might well apply to the latest government recommendation regarding PSA screening. Since its development and wide availability starting in the late 1990s, this simple blood test has undoubtedly saved the lives of hundreds of thousands keep reading

Word is spreading fast that a dietary supplement called 4-MU can stop prostate cancer (PCa) in its tracks. Stories like Fox News Health’s “Dietary Supplement May Prevent and Treat Prostate Cancer, Study Says,” and the bulletin from the... keep reading

The blog below about PI-RADS v1.0, predated a revision, PI-RADS v2.0 by a year. Four years later another revision, PI-RADS v2.1, offered more specific descriptions and definitions in order to improve agreement among readers. Recent studies tested PI-RADS v2.1 compared with v2.0. keep reading

In one sense, the greatest cure for cancer is to keep it from happening in the first place. Your local drugstore may be the source of inexpensive products that help protect men against prostate cancer such as... keep reading

Black salve. Black ointment. Bloodroot capsules. Organic bloodroot extract. Do any of these sound familiar? Have you tried any of them? Numerous preparations based on sanguinaria, or the bloodroot plant, are capturing attention due to such claims as... keep reading

It’s human nature to do certain things to be able to cope and manage difficult situations. Coping styles vary — from a sense of spirituality to talking to a therapist to distractions via work or hobbies. Although these strategies are inherently different from one another, they all have a common purpose... keep reading

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

Dr. J. Curtis Nickel is a Canadian urologist who is an authority on prostate inflammation and BPH. In January, 2018 he opened his presentation to an audience of urologists and oncologists with the wry observation, keep reading

It has been, and continues to be, our position that metal instruments such as a scalpel or a biopsy needle are extremely unlikely to unleash PCa tumor cells that ultimately threaten a patient’s life. The predominant opinion among clinical professionals is that, even if it were to occur, it would be exceedingly rare. Another way to come at the prostatectomy-spreading-PCa problem is to broaden the question: can surgical removal of cancer cause the cancer to spread? keep reading