In Today's issue of The New England Journal of Medicine are the results of a study which tried to: (a) find out what factors determine quality of life (QOL) after primary treatment for prostate cancer, and (b) measure the effects of these factors on overall satisfaction with the treatment outcome as reported by (i) patients [...]
Dear husband just spent a few days jaunting around central Florida, watching spring training (baseball) and having a blast with the guys. You can say it was "boys' week out." DH and his friends Derek and Joe took in five games, which included nine teams. To me baseball is the Anti-Cancer. It represents everything wholesome [...]
If you are thinking of having minimally invasive (laparoscopic) surgery for prostate cancer, have a family member who's had it or just want to *really* understand how it works, you will want to read this guest article by Arnon Krongrad, MD. Dr. Krongrad is a prostate cancer surgeon in Aventura, Florida, and Chairman of the [...]
This is from the Journal of the American Medical Association via a Johns Hopkins Health Alert. These are free and very useful. You can subscribe @ johnshopkinshealthalerts.com. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Erectile Dysfunction Linked to Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes A study of nearly 4,000 men with an average age of 57 found that nearly half had experienced erectile [...]
Gordon M. wrote in a PC newsgroup: I wanted to let you know that since I started treatment Jan 12, 2004 I have now walked over 5,500 miles (gone through 5 pairs of running shoes), swam 200 miles, and weight lifted over 8 million pounds. I look at that as walking from coast-to-coast. This doesn't [...]
Thanks to Don Greggs of PPML for this recommendation on how to get your MDR (minimal daily requirement) of lycopene. (Don follows Dr. "Snuffy" Myers' recommendations.) Lycopene: The caps are fine, but I wanted to possibly reduce daily pills/caps. [Dr. Myers] says an 8 oz. V8 is a good single dose and that 1 tsp. [...]
Vitamin D was the subject of the popular Personal Health Column in the New York Times this week. That means *IT has arrived*. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "An Oldie Vies for Nutrient of the Decade" By JANE E. BRODY, in Personal Health Published: February 19, 2008 . . . Now a growing legion of medical researchers have raised [...]
Want to share this bit of news with all of you. The Cleveland Clinic is a fine institution and they seem to be up-to-date on ED. Their conclusion: "Early intracavernosal injections following RP facilitated early sexual intercourse, patient satisfaction and potentially earlier return of natural erections. Early combination therapy with sildenafil allowed a lower dose of [...]
In a message opposing what he perceives as the overaggressive treatment of prostate cancer in this country, Jim W. wrote in in one of the PC newsgroups: "It's kind of like a lot of us are shooting before we take aim. In the Revolutionary War, General Israel Putnam rallied his green colonial troops with this cry: [...]
Aubrey Pilgrim, whom I wrote about here (see "Icons:", etc), reported this news from a conference he attended last weekend. I don't know Dr. Crawford except to say that he is rated #11 on expertmapper.com for expertise *on planet earth* in *PC*. (The list is a hodgepodge of docs in various specialties.) I was just thinking that [...]
