Category Archives for prostate cancer
Exercise is Prostate Cancer RadioProtector
Exercise is Prostate Cancer RadioProtector, meaning that men undergoing radiation for prostate cancer treatment can reduce the damage to their bodies by exercising, according to the research below. According
Continue readingPomegranate and Your Prostate
Pomegranate and your prostate? You’ve recently undergone a prostate specific antigen test and your number is too high or reading higher than you’d like. Maybe you have to get up a couple of
Continue readingExercise DURING Prostate Cancer Treatment
Exercise DURING prostate cancer treatment!? Yes. According to research, exercise during treatment can help cancer patients with side effects. It’s difficult to compare treatment regimens, but I’ll
Continue readingProstatectomy Incontinence Recovery
Prostatectomy Incontinence Recovery? Acupuncture, according to the research excerpted below, can reduce urinary incontinence. Not all prostate cancer patients, but almost half of the group. Urinary incontinence
Continue readingProstate Cancer Treatment Side Effects
Why is the research linked below talking about “complications?” The research confirms that prostate cancer treatment side effects are serious and must be understood before the PCa patient chooses
Continue readingProstate Cancer Prevention!
Prostate cancer prevention is cheap and easy. Whereas testing for prostate cancer with conventional methods such as prostate specific antigen (PSA) testing and prostate biopsies can result in false positives
Continue readingProstate Cancer Diet Post Treatment
You were diagnosed with prostate cancer (PCa). You underwent therapy. Perhaps even a total prostatectomy. After your therapy to put your cancer in remission, you began to wonder about a possible relapse?
Continue readingHow Long is Active Surveillance for Prostate Cancer?
How long should you undergo active surveillance if you have low-risk Prostate Cancer (PCa)? According to my experience compared to the study linked below, active surveillance among low-risk PCa patients
Continue readingProstate Cancer, Sexual Function, Urinary Incontinence
Prostate cancer (PCa) therapy has left you with reduced sexual function and increased urinary problems. These side effects are common among prostate cancer survivors who have had a radical prostatectomy
Continue readingProstate Cancer Treatments Side Effects
Prostate cancer treatments and the possible side effects that result depend largely on the specific treatment that the PCa patient undergoes. While that may sound obvious (duh…), the article linked
Continue readingProstate Cancer- Surveillance Then Treatment
When a real life prostate cancer patient mirrors the experience of research I am quick to post about it. The combination is a “real world” as it gets. John Smith (not his real name) lived the
Continue readingProstatectomy- Side Effects?!
Undergoing a prostatectomy can be a nightmare from a short, long-term and late stage side effects perspective. The testimonial below is from a long-time friend who came to me asking about prostate cancer.
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