Tag: prostate cancer

If you want your home to outsmart your neighbor’s, you can count on robotics to make you the leader on the block. Today’s smart home is equipped with robots that are trusted to mop floors, wash windows, tutor your tots, and even become your canine best friend! [Note: links to products are intended only as keep reading

We all grew up with the concept of majority rule. It’s the idea that when more than half the people decide on something, everyone is compelled to abide by it. Or, whichever group has the most supporters determines everyone’s fate, including their own. It generally works for organizing government and deciding issues. However, majority rule keep reading

The blog below promoted the benefits of a whole foods plant-based diet. However, there are meat lovers who like the wellness theory of eating plants but are conflicted about giving up beef, poultry, lamb, game, or seafood. Plant-based meat analogues (PBMAs) seem to be a happy solution, offering the taste and texture of flesh yet the advantages of vegetation. Not so fast! keep reading

In the world of prostate cancer (PCa), there is a trend toward holistic care that aims to treat the whole person. It is creating a multimodality “cocktail” of healing resources for body, mind and spirit. This isn’t just some kind of pop psychology jargon. There is biological proof that combining both tangible and intangible modalities can alter prostate cancer itself. For instance... keep reading

As promised, the analyzed results of the MEAL study (2011-15) described below were finally published by JAMA in January, 2020.iIf the authors were hoping to show that increasing vegetable intake could slow progression of prostate cancer (PCa) among patients on Active Surveillance, they must have been... keep reading

Many symptoms, diseases or injuries are so clear-cut that diagnosing them is a no brainer. The body’s problem gives clear information and no guesswork is involved. Whether it’s a painful shingles rash, a rapidly swelling sprained ankle, or sudden crushing chest pain, a visit to your doctor or Emergency Department results in a rapid assessment, keep reading

More and more prostate cancer patients and their doctors are turning to Active Surveillance (AS). Data shows that for carefully chosen low risk patients, AS is a way to hold off on treatment like surgery or radiation without significantly increasing the chances of death from prostate cancer... keep reading

Before a prostate cancer patient makes a final decision to have focal laser ablation, I go over the details of MRI-guided FLA and what to expect after treatment. I remind each person that it’s important to monitor for PCa recurrence. After any focal treatment (cryo, HIFU, Focal Laser Ablation, MRgFUS, TULSA) PCa can either come back in the treatment site—called treatment failure, meaning the treatment did not destroy all the cancer at the site—or recur in a different location... keep reading

Good detective stories may have crossed your early path in life. Perhaps you read vintage classics like the classic Nancy Drew or Hardy Boys books, or more recently Nate the Great and Encyclopedia Brown. If you got hooked, you advanced to classic tales about Sherlock Holmes, Miss Marple and others. Our TVs brought Sgt. Columbo keep reading

I was alarmed by a recent article about patients who feel like their doctors ignore or dismiss their symptoms or problems. Not only would this be frustrating—even infuriating—in some cases the patients come away wondering if they’re crazy. If so, it’s called medical gaslighting, a term that traced to a dark 1938 stage play (and keep reading