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Christopher Lukas

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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

posted 10/19/2006, comments (0)|

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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

posted 10/12/2006, comments (0)|

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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

posted 06/27/2006, comments (0)|

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