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Food For Urologic Thought From E. David Crawford, MD

One of the most respected U.S. urologists is Dr. E. David Crawford, Professor of Surgery, Urology, and Radiation Oncology, and head of the Section of Urologic Oncology at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. He gave a presentation to the plenary session of the recent European Association of Urology meeting in Madrid, on the keep reading

Using Imaging to Detect Early Prostate Cancer Spread

The annual Genitourinary Cancers Symposium is a three day professional meeting on cancers related to the prostate, bladder, kidneys, and other organ systems related to urinary and sexual function. Prostate cancer has an entire poster section devoted just to this disease. At the Feb. 26-28, 2015 symposium on Orlando, one of the general presentation sessions 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

Equal Access to Prostate Cancer Care

The Reverend Jesse Jackson described the American dream as one big tent: “And on that big tent you have four basic promises: equal protection under the law, equal opportunity, equal access, and fair share.” A new study suggests that when it comes to prostate cancer (PCa), patients do not have equal access to medical care. 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

“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

Experts Weigh In On MRI and Active Surveillance

An international team of experts on imaging prostate cancer participated in a review of the literature on prostate MRI and active surveillance.[i] To give you an idea of how impressive the team was, here is a list of the institutions they represent: Erasmus University Medical Center (Depts. of Urology and Radiology), Rotterday, the Netherlands University keep reading

Scan Abuse and How to Avoid It

Sadly, prostate cancer (PCa) patients with low-risk disease are still being sent for needless diagnostic bone and CT scans. This was the finding of an impressive multi-disciplinary research team from several institutions (U.S. Veterans Administration and various medical and public policy departments within New York University and Yale University). The investigators found that nearly keep reading

Put an End to Overtreatment

“There is increased use of radiotherapy among patients with indolent prostate cancer with limited to no correlation with tumor biology.” This conclusion was reached by a research team out of UCLA after studying the treatment choices of 37,621 patients.[i] In fact, over half (57.9%) of the men were sent for radiation, while 19.1% had a keep reading

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