Tag: PSA

Shared decision-making (SDM) is the new hot ticket for choosing a prostate cancer (PCa) treatment. I posted a 2023 blog about the importance of doctor-patient conversations that enable patients to ask questions and share their concerns, while doctors take on the role of neutral educator and empathic listener. This collaboration helps patients avoid treatment regret keep reading

Why has it taken so long for someone to denounce the digital rectal exam (DRE) as a screening tool? Despite expert opinion against the DRE, many primary care doctors still do a DRE as part of routine annual checkups. The DRE has also been considered an essential monitoring practice for prostate cancer (PCa) patients on keep reading

Question: What’s every man’s favorite medical exam? Answer: Pretty much anything as long as it’s not the Digital Rectal Exam! I know a lot of men who stoically accept the fact that during their annual physical, their primary care doctor or urologist will perform a routine digital rectal exam (DRE). It’s sometimes jokingly called “the keep reading

In astronomy, news of a relatively rare alignment of heavenly bodies tends to generate excitement on planet earth. For example, over an 18-year period, only three or four total lunar eclipses will be visible from beginning to end (depending where you are and assuming the night is clear). I got excited over the convergence of keep reading

When was your last annual physical? If it was less than 12 months ago, skip the rest of this blog. However, if it was more than a year ago—and you don’t have an upcoming appointment on the books— ask yourself why you’re avoiding going to the doctor. Maybe it’s one of the following three reasons: keep reading

As the search continues for the perfect noninvasive diagnostic test for prostate cancer (PCa), investigators are exploring various ways to analyze urine. I want to describe three unique methods that are currently being tested. According to a Johns Hopkins article, dogs may have a new way to be man’s best friend. They can detect PCa keep reading

If you grew up in a northern climate, winter brought snow. As a kid, you quickly learned that some snow was good “packing.” This meant you could make a snowman. A snowman is built from the bottom up, and requires a very large ball as the base. You start with a small sphere, and roll keep reading

A multinational research team, including a urologist, radiologist and pathologist from UCLA, published a recent paper on the value of mpMRI for monitoring and reassessing low-risk prostate cancer patients on Active Surveillance... keep reading

High cholesterol is not your heart’s best friend, right? Everyone knows that! But what you may not know is the impact of high cholesterol on your PSA levels as well as risk of prostate cancer (PCa). As far back as 2014 we began posting blogs about the effects of statins—a class of drugs used to keep reading

Here’s a question you might not think to ask: Can I exercise my worries away? Specifically, if you’re on Active Surveillance for prostate cancer (PCa), what’s the best way to “work out” any anxiety you might be having? For cancer patients, or even people who have a weird symptom and think it might be cancer, keep reading