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Jay Motola

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posted 11/05/2007, comments (5)

Enlarged Prostate Treatment: Green Light PVP

Technological advances such as the laser have redefined the surgical treatment of enlarged prostate. Laser is actually an acronym for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. Light that is emited is converted to heat energy that has various effects on the tissue that the light is directed at. The Green Light PVP ... Read more Chevron

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posted 10/09/2007, comment (1)

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What good it a web site that purports to provide unbiased information on prostate cancer and the treatment thereof, when it avoids mentioning radical robotic lapraroscopic prostatectomy (da Vinci procedure) as a surgical option of treatment?????

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posted 10/25/2006, comments (0)

Treatment Talk

I had dinner the other night with a friend of mine. He’s in his late 70’s and seemed to be of robust health. During dinner, however, he told me that he’d had some heart problems for years and he had had a PSA of 8 some years back. Though the PSA hadn’t risen over time, a biopsy discovered a few cells that were cancerous. In addition, he... Read more Chevron

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Christopher Lukas

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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 10/12/2006, comments (0)

Update on Zack and Paul

Zack and Paul’s situations have changed, once again! Paul, who, as you may recall from two of my earlier posts, kept refusing to do anything like a biopsy, went back yet again to get a PSA test. This was his third or fourth. His urologist had said that a PSA of 4 was normal, and that Paul’s PSA had been at 5.3, which was “bad,” and now it... Read more Chevron

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