When I first started the blog I wrote that I wanted to introduce you to ordinary members of the "prostate cancer club. " Burney Huff, who is shown in the picture above vacationing in Homer, Alaska with his wife, Leigh, is one of my favorites. Burney, 65, was diagnosed with PC in 1995, had RT in 2000 [...]
This is a follow-up to the previous posting. Please read that first. Following is an editorial by Dr. Michael Blute of the Mayo Clinic urology faculty. He is commenting on a study by Dr. Hu which compared laparascopic and open surgery. I am going to cite the entire article almost verbatim and I have emphasized parts that I [...]
I was going to share with you an opinion piece in which several doctors from the Mayo Clinic comment on a study by Dr. Hu of Harvard, which compared outcomes for laparascopic (which includes robotic) and traditional open surgery for prostate cancer. I had some resistance to posting this information because I know it's not what people want [...]
A few years ago, I was with my father in the ICU of a community hospital when I noticed that he seemed worse than usual and had a rash all over his body. I tried to get the attention of the doctors, but they had better things to do than tend to non-life-threatening issues. I was [...]
You may have heard that Hamilton Jordan, chief-of-staff to Jimmy Carter, died yesterday of cancer at the age of 63. You may not have known that Jordan battled four cancers, including lymphoma, prostate, skin cancer and mesothelioma. In spite of all this, Jordan wrote a book called "No Such Thing As A Bad Day" speaking about himself. Jordan [...]