Category: Prostate Cancer Treatment

Oxygen-enhanced MRI may change how prostate cancer is treated, especially for men undergoing radiation therapy. Learn how this groundbreaking imaging technique can reduce radiation doses by tracking tumor response in real-time. keep reading

Metastatic prostate cancer is challenging, but new precision treatments target and destroy cancer cells while sparing healthy tissue. Learn how advanced imaging and therapies are changing the game in prostate cancer care. keep reading

It was not that long ago when it was widely held that prostate cancer (PCa) is an “old man’s disease.” No more. That belief is now only shredder-worthy. Wad up the paper, toss it in the recycle bin—but please don’t recycle the idea itself! PCa is now hitting men at younger ages, many of whom keep reading

What’s the secret to the perfect treatment plan for prostate cancer (PCa)? It’s YOU, it’s YOUR tumor and YOUR anatomy. No two patients have identical disease in identical bodies. Thus, the perfect treatment plan is the one tailor-made for YOUR PCa. Therefore, it’s essential that your doctor has as much accurate information as possible about keep reading

A sickening feeling Has this ever happened to you? You want to retrieve something small but important. Maybe it’s the key to your safe deposit box, or an heirloom gold watch chain from your great-grandfather. You go to the place you usually keep it, like a box in the back of a drawer, or a keep reading

British physicist Stephen Hawking (1942-2018) was globally recognized as one of the most gigantic intellects in our time. According to study.com, Hawking was awarded “…thirteen honorary degrees, the Franklin Medal, the Hughes Medal, the Albert Einstein Medal, the Wolf Prize in Physics, the Albert Einstein Award, and many more.” For Hawking, unraveling the mystery of keep reading

Do you know how many decisions you make every day? Hint: it’s a whopping number. According to British psychology professor Eva Krockow, “Whether you’re making breakfast or deciding what to wear in the morning, your brain is making upward of 35,000 decisions each day… By the evening, you’re exhausted, but you can’t quite put your keep reading

How do you feel about the number 13? For some, Friday the 13th is considered unlucky. The number 13 may not have been the luckiest number for the 1970 Apollo 13 lunar landing mission. In fact, while circling the moon, Monday April 13 nearly became very unlucky indeed. The No. 2 oxygen tank in the keep reading

It’s less than 200 years since a German-Czech monk named Gregor Mendel pioneered what we now know as the science of genetics. In 2003, over 90% of the human blueprint was finally revealed when the human genome was sequenced, described by the Human Genome Project as “one of the most ambitious and important scientific endeavors keep reading

Has this ever happened to you? You don’t feel well or you have a weird symptom and you make an appointment with your doctor. After discussion and maybe a test or two, your doc gives you a diagnosis. You have a condition that is not life threatening at the moment (such as low-risk prostate cancer) keep reading