Recipe for A Healthy Prostate: 3 Foods Every Man Should Eat
Three common foods help promote prostate health and prevent prostate cancer. Here's how to optimize them in your diet... keep reading
Tag: Prostate cancer
Leukemia Risk and Other Hazards After Radiation for Prostate Cancer: An Update
When four years had gone by since the blog below was posted, it was time to explore whether subsequent related studies had been published. It was slim pickings, but the following journal articles had relevant content on prostate cancer followed by acute myeloid leukemia keep reading
Update on Cannabis and Prostate Cancer
Research supports the anti-tumor effect of non-psychoactive CBD (cannabidiol), one of 100+ identified plant-derived cannabinoid compounds. For example, Kis et al. note that lab studies have shown a chemopreventive effect of cannabidiol in prostate cancer... keep reading
How Much Can You Know About Your Prostate Cancer Before Treatment?
Prostate cancer is a complex disease, and understanding the full extent of it is crucial before making treatment decisions. Multiparametric MRI (mpMRI) offers a detailed view of your prostate, helping to identify critical information to guide your treatment plan. keep reading
Brachytherapy: Follow the Bouncing (PSA) Ball?
Prostate specific antigen (PSA) is like an ID tag for prostate cells. Each prostate cell, whether normal or cancerous, carries proteins (antigens) that can be “shed” into the bloodstream when some type of activity stimulates the prostate. Generally, the more constant the activity, the higher the level of PSA as measured by a simple blood keep reading
Androgen Deprivation Therapy and Radiation: A Synergistic Effect
There is a saying from the world of computer programming: “Theory is when you know something, but it doesn’t work. Practice is when something works, but you don’t know why.” This saying also captures something that mystified urology/radiation oncology teams for two decades. Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) boosts the effectiveness of radiation therapy as a keep readingStereotactic Body Radiation Therapy: Quality of Life vs. Possible Risks
The evolution of prostate cancer (PCa) treatment often seems like a moving target. Suddenly there’s a revolutionary new treatment, or an exciting development in an existing one. Patients benefit from technological advances, gains in experience, and improved scientific knowledge—but even the most promising must survive the test of time, since unintended consequences can show up keep readingHow Can Immunotherapy Boost Focal Laser Ablation?
In the years since I first began treating localized prostate cancer using Focal Laser Ablation (FLA), I have acquired a broader perspective on cancer and the whole person. The human body contains an amazing defense mechanism with a “seek and destroy” mission against invasion from without and abnormality from within. It is called the immune keep reading
PI-RADS Updates Improve Prostate Imaging, Interpretation and Reporting
A new PI-RADS version improves earlier guidelines for more consistent image acquisition, interpretation, scoring and reporting... keep reading
