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A Surprising Way Exercise Combats Prostate Cancer

The search for a prostate cancer (PCa) cure involves general practitioners, internal medicine doctors, surgeons, radiologists, oncologists, and biologists—to name just a few. It may surprise you to learn that your personal trainer or coach may also have something to offer in terms of defeating PCa and other tumor cancers: exercise! As surprising as it keep reading

A Dozen Italians (Plus 18,000 Other Europeans) Are Right About In-Bore Biopsy

History is littered with poor judgments, often on the part of a very small handful of people—or even a single individual. If you’re a trivia buff, you’d recognize the name of J. Bruce Ismay, owner of the Titanic, who determined a mere 20 lifeboats would be enough for an unsinkable ship. Or how about Willem keep reading

Going Off Active Surveillance: Better Safe Than Sorry

These days, Active Surveillance (AS) seems to be the new best friend for prostate cancer (PCa) patients. Over 40% of newly diagnosed, low-to-favorable intermediate risk patients now begin PCa management on AS. This method defers treatment, but there’s a catch. Patients must be responsible to: Obtain the most thorough portrait of your PCa (multiparametric MRI, keep reading

Got Prostate Cancer? Get Off Your Butt and Start Moving!

Exercise and Prostate Cancer - Sperling Prostate Center

I was very interested in a new study about cancer survivors and the need for exercise. The article I found in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) applies just as much to prostate cancer (PCa) survivors as any other cancer—and that includes our patients whose focal disease was treated with Focal Laser Ablation keep reading

Can MRI Plus Artificial Intelligence Diagnose Prostate Cancer?

The question posed in the title is a worthy one, given the increasing attraction of applying Artificial Intelligence (AI) to medicine, specifically in detecting and diagnosing prostate cancer (PCa). Why do we need this? Is there something lacking in the way doctors have been performing? Well, not exactly. Radiologists and urologists who are experienced in keep reading

MRI/Ultrasound Fusion: Not Ready for Prime Time

When an authoritative person weighs in on a topic, we sit up and take notice. Dr. Ardeshir (Art) Rastinehead is an Interventional Urologic Oncologist and he is impressively credentialed. His experience includes fellowship training at the National Cancer Institute (NIH) with. Peter A. Pinto and Bradford J. Wood, pioneers in the research and development of keep reading

The Importance of Lifestyle

When life goes along smoothly, it is easy to take for granted things like material comfort, physical and mental health, and the safety of our loved ones and ourselves. However, life has a way of surprising us with unforeseen unpleasantness. Illness, especially cancer, shakes us out of our comfort zone and thrusts us into unfamiliar keep reading

September and Prostate Health

By: Dan Sperling, MD September is a time when leaves turn to warm colors—and our minds should turn to thoughts of prostate health. September is National Prostate Health Month. Specifically, the week of September 17-24 is officially designated as Prostate Cancer Awareness Week. September is an invigorating month. The lazy days of summer are keep reading

Indiana Proton Beam Facility Closes

By: Dan Sperling, MD In recent months, proton beam radiation has come under criticism for two main reasons. First, it imposes a huge cost burden upon a medical payment system that is already limping. Second, it has not been shown to be significantly more effective in the treatment of prostate cancer than other forms of keep reading

The Many Uses of DWI-MRI

By: Dan Sperling, MD Diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DWI-MRI) has tremendous diagnostic value for conditions throughout the body, not just the prostate. Diffusion weighting is one of parameters that distinguish unhealthy tissue from normal tissue. It gives qualitative and quantitative information about the random motion of water molecules in tissues, and can give functional keep reading

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