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“Did you come in here sick or are they going to make you sick?” (Overheard at a hospital entrance years ago when one friend greeted another. It still rings true today.) A Government panel-The United States Preventative Task Force-recently issued a statement that men should no longer get screened for prostate cancer as they found the […]

WHY SHOULD THE AFTER EFFECTS OF SOME PROSTATE CANCER TREATMENTS BE WORSE THAN THE DISEASE ITSELF? By Bert Vorstman, MD, MS, FAAP, FRACS, FACSIntroductionA great number of men who have completed a treatment for their prostate cancer are left without clear benefit from their choice of treatment and with considerable short-term and long-term after effects. […]

The SURVIVAL benefits between the four definitive treatment options (HIFU, cryoablation, radiation, surgery) for localized prostate cancer are similar.Survival,does not necessarily equate with CURE. Cure rates for prostate cancer have to be viewed with considerable caution simply because the data points used to generate the prostate cancer stage are inexact and this information is used […]

Dr Bert Vorstman has a vast 30 year experience in urology which has allowed him to develop a Minimally Invasive Prostate Cancer Treatment Center. His center is reassuring and comfort conscious and with a healing environment. For added patient convenience we have adjoining imaging and outpatient surgical facilities. What Sets Us Apart? an advanced sophisticated […]

Are you being presented with all of the options to treat localized prostate cancer? Studies have indicated that men often select a treatment therapy for their prostate cancer based upon the specialty of the physician they consulted. There are six broad categories of therapy options for treating prostate cancer.High intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU)Cryoablation (freezing)Radiation (various […]