The other day my wife went to her grandmother and aunt's apartment to pick Dev up from a sleepover. When she arrived at their home Mama did what all of our elders do - she started to size-up her granddaughter in her unique playful way. She commented on how my wife has put some "meat [...]
There is exciting news out of the 2008 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium in San Francisco. An abstract (American Society of Clinical Oncology 2008 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium (GCS): Abstract 85) presented at the conference described a retrospective study that strongly suggests that salvage radiotherapy reduced the risk of dying from prostate cancer by more than 60% for [...]
I have invited Dr. Arnon Krongrad, M.D. to submit an occasional post. He is a pioneer of the Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy and currently practices at the Krongrad Institute in Aventura Florida. This post on preventing prostate cancer is a little late for those of us who have recurrent, advanced disease, but it isn’t to late [...]
The American Cancer Society has released its revised statistical projections for prostate cancer diagnoses and deaths in the United States for the upcoming year of 2008. The projection calls for 186,320 men to be diagnosed and 28,660 to die from the disease. These numbers do not take into account the many men who die from [...]
As women age and enter into menopause the hormonal changes they experience causes them to suffer from loss of bone mineral density (BMD). Men who are on a hormone blockade also experience similar losses of their bone density. Lower bone mineral density greatly increases your general risk of breaking bones. Breaking bones not only creates [...]