Early Signs of Early-Stage Prostate Cancer
By Rodney Herbert Most early-stage prostate cancers cause no symptoms at all. This means a man can have prostate cancer and feel completely fine. Because early prostate tumors are usually small and slow-growing, they [...]
The Digital Rectal Exam (DRE) and Prostate Cancer (2015–2025)
By Rodney Herbert The digital rectal exam (DRE) involves a doctor inserting a gloved, lubricated finger into the rectum to feel the back surface of the prostate gland. This simple physical exam can detect [...]
PSA Velocity and PSA Density in Prostate Cancer Evaluation
By Rodney Herbert Prostate cancer screening often starts with a PSA blood test. PSA stands for prostate-specific antigen, a protein made by the prostate gland. Doctors look not just at the PSA number itself, [...]
Free PSA vs Total PSA: Understanding the Difference
Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) tests can be confusing, especially when doctors start talking about “free PSA” and “total PSA.” This guide will break down what PSA is, explain the difference between free and total PSA [...]
The Eighth Birthday of the Fatherdad Blog
On this day eight years ago I made my first post on fatherdad.com. That was the first ever post by a black "daddy blogger." I searched high and low for one before I determined that [...]
IT’S TIME FOR DAD’S WELLNESS
Wellness Wheel When I first got into blogging about six years ago there was this constant urge to, if not overwhelming obsession with, trying to convince the world that good dads existed, especially the [...]