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Localized Prostate Cancer Treatment Options & Issues

July 14, 2011 by Bert Vorstman MD

The accompanying table features the four definitive treatment options for localized prostate cancer. All four basic treatment options, high intensity focused ultrasound (hifu), cryoablation (freezing), radiation (includes brachytherapy and proton beam) and surgery/robotics have similar survival benefits. Also included with the table are several important footnotes, one of which highlights the very misleading subject of […]

Filed Under: Prostate Cancer News

ROBOTIC PROSTATE CANCER SURGERY: A PUBLIC HEALTH NIGHTMARE

May 18, 2011 by Bert Vorstman MD

Prostate cancer awareness, PSA screening for prostate cancer and the ill-conceived, debilitating radical surgery/robotic prostatectomy “treatment” are generally worthless and harmful, and represent an unbridled scam in public health.    For many years, it has been quite clear that most so-called prostate “cancers” behave as noncancerous and are, in fact, more like a pseudo-disease.   […]

Filed Under: Mens Health, Prostate Cancer News

PROSTATE CANCER WITH A NORMAL PSA

May 5, 2011 by Bert Vorstman MD

PROSTATE CANCER WITH A NORMAL PSA Some 15-20 per cent of men with a normal total PSA (tPSA) of 4 ng/ml or less can have clinically significant prostate cancer. These men have no symptoms and usually no findings on examination. The only way these men can be identified is by calculating their per cent free […]

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PSAs and Prostate Cancer How to Beat the “Healthcare” System and Save Money

February 18, 2011 by Bert Vorstman MD

DECISION MAKING STEPS on whether to submit for a prostate cancer screening PSA blood test and for any possible evaluation for prostate cancer and its treatment can be extraordinarily difficult. Not only is this true for individual men but for all physicians, simply because of the overwhelming amount of bias, misinformation, misrepresentation and the pervasive […]

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Index Lesion & Tumor Volume in Multifocal Prostate Cancer

February 14, 2011 by Bert Vorstman MD

When prostates removed surgically for prostate cancer are examined, 50-75% of these specimens contain more than one area or focus of cancer and called multifocal prostate cancer. In other words, only about 25% of men may have a unifocal prostate cancer lesion that may be suitable for focal therapy. In these prostates with multifocal cancer, […]

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