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posted 10/19/2006, comments (0)

Prostatectomy for an 80-something-year-old

Editor's Note: A new Mayo Clinic Cancer Center study indicates that prostatectomy does not need to be automatically excluded as an option for octogenarians. The father of a friend of mine turned 88. Shortly afterwards, he had a massive heart attack, and went into the hospital for a bypass. During the tests that went along with that procedure,... Read more Chevron

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posted 08/15/2006, comments (0)

A Not So Peculiar Dilemma

Since writing about Zack and Paul last week, things have changed. If you recall, I said that Paul was holding off on doing anything (his PSA had actually dropped with time), while Zack had decided on seed implantation (his PSA had risen by 4 over a year, and he had a biopsy with a Gleason of 6.) I got a phone call from his wife, however, which... Read more Chevron

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posted 06/27/2006, comments (0)

The Fear in the Middle of the Night

Some of you may have felt that my last column was insensitive. In that essay, I was suggesting that you might not have cancer that needed treatment, and so I didn’t pay attention to the very real fears that you have – whether or not you were seriously ill. But I do take cancer seriously. Having had it twice, I know how bad the midnight anxiety... Read more Chevron

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