They discovered that you have prostate cancer, your PSA numbers are creeping up, your Gleason Score is above a 7 or 8 and you just don’t want to live your life monitoring this cancer’s slow progression and likely spread. Wait long enough and you may be facing radiation and even chemo. So you decide to…
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Prostate – Lie #1 – Don’t do anything, let us monitor it
Here are the gloomy prostate cancer statistics: about 3.1 million U.S. men now have prostate cancer; 248,000 new cases occur each year; and 31,000 men will die each year from this cancer every year. Depending upon the Gleason score and PSA level, your doctor may recommend a “wait and see” approach. Basically, this “watchful waiting”…
Stage 1 Prostate Cancer – “the wait and see” approach (Part II)
Okay, you received the bad news from your urologist – the biopsy that was performed on your enlarged prostate showed some cancer. Most of the time they will tell you – unless you have a high Gleason score and high PSA – that this is usually a slow-moving cancer that can be monitored and may…
Stage I Prostate cancer – what can you do? (Part 1)
If you are a man, and fortunate to live to the age of 70, you have a 1 in 9 chance of developing prostate cancer. So far, western medical science has not concluded that there is any specific cause to this, such as diet, genetics, or just living long enough that bad things will begin…
What is good for prostate health?
Three years ago, I had a PSA count of 4.4 that had been slowly rising. The endocrinologist sent me to a urologist/male fertility specialist. Since I was then 60, male fertility was not the issue. Both doctors were concerned about the slow rise in PSA. The urologist informed me that on my next annual appointment,…