Tag: prostate cancer

• December 13, 2015
• General Prostate

The PSA Screening Debate

On November 18, 2015 the New York Times carried an article titled “Early Prostate Cancer Cases Fall Along With Screening.” Ever since the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommended against broad PSA screening on the grounds that it leads to overdetection and overtreatment, two opposing positions have been created. One position favors the recommendation on keep reading

• December 10, 2015
• General Prostate

A Brief Imaging Update

Roughly 14% of American men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer (PCa) in their lifetime. It is the second leading cause of death in men, after lung cancer—yet it is a highly curable disease if caught early, and if choice of treatment matches the disease. This year, over 220,000 new cases will be diagnosed. Today, keep reading

• November 22, 2015
• General Prostate

Heart-Healthy Choices Promote Prostate Health

Mark Moyad, MD, professor of preventive and alternative medicine at the University of Michigan, is renowned for his extensive knowledge on how nutrition, supplements and exercise protect against prostate cancer. He recently published a detailed report, “Preventing Aggressive Prostate Cancer with Proven Cardiovascular Disease Preventive Methods.”[i] He lists risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD) that keep reading

• November 20, 2015
• General Prostate

Let’s Talk About Informed Decision Making

How do you prepare for a prostate cancer consultation? While I can’t speak for everyone in my profession, I believe these days most urologists and radiologists are comfortable with patients bringing in a list of questions. I encourage patients to do so, especially if they are facing a detection, diagnosis, or decision-making process regarding prostate keep reading

• November 2, 2015
• General Prostate

Testosterone Replacement Delivery Systems

Thanks to new evidence that testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) does not increase prostate cancer risk, many PCa patients with low testosterone are breathing sighs of relief. Testosterone levels tend to decrease as men age, by about 1% per year after age 30. Low testosterone – also called low T or hypogonadism – affects approximately 13 keep reading

• October 25, 2015
• General Prostate

Poverty and Prostate Cancer Risk

I have written past blogs about physical factors that increase the risk of dying from prostate cancer: genetic history, exposure to toxic agents, alcohol abuse, smoking, too much red meat, precursor conditions such as high grade PIN and ASAP, etc. However, there’s another risk factor that does not occur within the body, but certainly affects keep reading

• October 4, 2015
• Focal Treatment & Laser Ablation

International Experts Give Focal Therapy a Green Light

One of the oldest and most respected urologic professional associations is the Société Internationale d’Urologie (SIU), headquartered in Montreal. It was founded in 1907 during a period when national and local urologic societies were getting off the ground. As part of their membership, urologists are subscribed to the World Journal of Urology. According to the keep reading

• September 30, 2015
• Imaging & mpMRI

Competition in MRI Technology

“Everyone is keeping up with the Joneses, and there are more Joneses than ever.” This statement from art critic Jerry Saltz refers to the buying habits of a public hungry for trendy art. However, it could as easily apply to MRI technology, where the strength of the magnet—measured in units called Tesla, or T—makes all keep reading

• September 27, 2015
• Focal Treatment & Laser Ablation

Designing Clinical Trials for Focal Salvage Ablation

Treating prostate cancer by thermal ablation uses extreme heat or cold to destroy the tissue. Prostate ablation was originally performed as a radical (total gland) treatment because prostate cancer was considered a multifocal disease. In other words, ablation was used as a substitute for surgical removal (prostatectomy) or radiation of the whole gland. It wasn’t keep reading

• September 21, 2015
• Other Treatments

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