Health Expert Jay Motola shares health management news and commentary at HealthCentral.com. HealthCentral.com is one of the top health destinations on the Web, with more than 35 condition-specific, wellness and general health Web properties. http://www.healthcentral.com/profiles/c/95/index http://www.healthcentral.com/profiles/c/95/rss self application/xml en-us 15 120 19 http://www.healthcentral.com/images/hc_logo_sm.gif http://www.healthcentral.com/profiles/c/95/index http://www.healthcentral.com/prostate/c/95/147607/testing-controversy Mon, 05 Dec 2011 10:49:00 -0500 Jay Motola The PSA test seems fairly straight-forward.  So why should there be a controversy?   Having been involved in urology prior to the widespread use of PSA testing, I and many other urologists have unfortunately spent time on the wards of hospitals that had numerous patients who were hospitalized as a result of the side effects of advanced prostate cancer.  In my opinion, this simple blood test has resulted in countless numbers of... http://www.healthcentral.com/prostate/c/95/147607/testing-controversy http://www.healthcentral.com/prostate/c/95/145613/symptoms-prostate Tue, 25 Oct 2011 00:10:00 -0400 Jay Motola On a daily basis, patients ask, “Doctor what are the symptoms of prostate cancer?” When I tell them that most cases of prostate cancer do not include symptoms, the patients are very surprised.   Prostate cancer presently is diagnosed in the early stages. These early cases of prostate cancer are usually diagnosed via a combination of PSA testing, digital rectal examination and a prostate biopsy that will confirm the presence of... http://www.healthcentral.com/prostate/c/95/145613/symptoms-prostate http://www.healthcentral.com/prostate/c/95/145612/post-incontinence Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:08:00 -0400 Jay Motola By now you have begun to recuperate from your surgery to remove your prostate cancer. The catheter is out and you have been cured of your cancer, however you are experiencing urinary incontinence, the involuntary loss of urine.   This is a scenario that we see in the office many times after radical surgery.  Many patients go into these procedures with false hope and the expectation that immediately after surgery they will regain... http://www.healthcentral.com/prostate/c/95/145612/post-incontinence http://www.healthcentral.com/prostate/c/95/142807/prostate-treatment Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:57:00 -0400 Jay Motola Drugs that fall into the category of 5-alpha reductase inhibitors (5 ARIs), such as Avodart (dutasteride) and Proscar (finasteride) have recently been in the news.  These drugs have previously been approved to treat the symptoms of prostate enlargement by causing the prostate to shrink in size.  Propecia, which is a 1 mg dose of finasteride is also used to treat male pattern balding.  This category of drugs has been proven to be... http://www.healthcentral.com/prostate/c/95/142807/prostate-treatment http://www.healthcentral.com/prostate/c/95/141210/cancer-intravesical Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:56:00 -0400 Jay Motola Mitomycin C is a naturally derived chemotherapy that is isolated from the streptomyces bacteria. This drug is used for the treatment of various cancers, but in Urology it is used for the treatment of superficial bladder cancer, the most common type of bladder cancer that is diagnosed.  Over 70,000 cases of bladder cancer are diagnosed in the United States yearly.  Intravesical therapy is used to decrease the likelihood of tumor... http://www.healthcentral.com/prostate/c/95/141210/cancer-intravesical http://www.healthcentral.com/prostate/c/95/139275/hematuria Sun, 05 Jun 2011 23:40:00 -0400 Jay Motola Hematuria is the presence of blood in the urinary tract and is a fairly common entitiy. Blood can be either gross bleeding (gross hematuria) which is visualized with the naked eye and easily detected by the patient or microscopic hematuria that is only detected with the use of a microscope.   Some of the more common risk factors for the development of hematuria include cigarette smoking, chemical exposure or radiation exposure to the... http://www.healthcentral.com/prostate/c/95/139275/hematuria http://www.healthcentral.com/prostate/c/95/124725/maintain-prostate Tue, 17 May 2011 08:59:00 -0400 Jay Motola You havejust undergone aprostate biopsy and, in most cases, you have tolerated the procedure very well. There may have been some blood in the urine or on your stool for a few days, however it has most likely ceased. If you have resumed sexual activity, your semen may still have some blood in it, which can either be red or brown and it may for remain that way for a few weeks. But overall you are feeling pretty good at this time until your... http://www.healthcentral.com/prostate/c/95/124725/maintain-prostate http://www.healthcentral.com/prostate/c/95/135827/prostate-radiation Mon, 04 Apr 2011 09:09:00 -0400 Jay Motola Radiation therapy is one of the more commonly used methods for the treatment of localized prostate cancer. It involves the use of ionizing radiation to kill the cancer cells.   Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) is a radiation technique that focuses very small beams of radiation at a targeted tumor from many different angles.  This type of technology allows for a very direct treatment of the tumor. By using a collimator, a... http://www.healthcentral.com/prostate/c/95/135827/prostate-radiation http://www.healthcentral.com/prostate/c/95/132783/metastatic-prostate Wed, 02 Mar 2011 10:17:00 -0500 Jay Motola   Most patients who have prostate cancer are diagnosed with early-stage disease that is localized to the prostate. These patients are able to benefit from many different treatment options that include active surveillance, radical surgery, cryotherapy of the prostate and radiation therapy.  Most that undergo intervention for early stage disease are usually cured.   However, some of these patients can have recurrent disease which... http://www.healthcentral.com/prostate/c/95/132783/metastatic-prostate http://www.healthcentral.com/prostate/c/95/129440/ultrasound-prostate Tue, 18 Jan 2011 22:25:00 -0500 Jay Motola   Prostate cancer can be definitively treated with either the surgical removal of the prostate (radical prostatectomy) or with the use of different sources of energy that can teat the cancer. Some of these energy sources include radiation therapy, cryotherapy (freezing the prostate) or one of the newer treatments high intensity focused ultrasound of prostate (HIFU), which uses focused ultrasound to kill the prostate cancer... http://www.healthcentral.com/prostate/c/95/129440/ultrasound-prostate