Advances in Testing for Prostate Cancer
When I was 10 years old, my mother lost a close friend to cancer. I was too young to know anything about serious illness, but when I asked her why …
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Frequently Asked Questions About Prostate Cancer After Diagnosis
(These FAQs are for men who have received an elevated PSA or have a definitive diagnosis of prostate cancer. As medical oncologists who specialize in the treatment of prostate cancer …
Breakthroughs for Hormone-Resistant Prostate Cancer
BY MARK SCHOLZ, MD The value of a new medical treatment is gauged by the seriousness of the problem it overcomes. Hormone-resistant prostate cancer—that is, prostate cancer that has become …
Fundamentals Required for Prostate Cancer Staging
BY MARK SCHOLZ, MD For prostate cancer patients, an optimal treatment plan is the most important factor for long-term survival, and finding that ideal treatment begins with accurate staging. The …
The 15 Stages of Prostate Cancer
BY MARK SCHOLZ, MD There are many barriers to achieving optimal care for prostate cancer. First of all, as we will see by the end of this article, prostate cancer is …
Prostate Vanguard E009: What About Body Scans?
Great awareness about body scanning and prostate scans have been surfacing because of all the excitement of 3T multiparametric MRI prostate scans. There are other scans that evaluate the rest …
Prostate Vanguard E008: Doctors Still Order Random Biopsies Despite Newer Technology
When people hear about multiparametric MRI, accurate imaging of the prostate, they are always surprised that doctors are still doing random biopsies. The question always comes up, “Why are we …
Prostate Vanguard E007: Sequential Scanning
https://youtu.be/1IFjr2fKPaU Patients ask me why their scans have to be repeated. The modern methodology, for monitoring prostate cancer, historically, was putting needles into the prostate on a regular basis. We …
Prostate Vanguard E006: Active Surveillance Scanning and Testing
The process of Active Surveillance, the way we practice in Marina del Rey, is to perform a PSA blood test every three months and plot these results on a graph, …
Prostate Vanguard E005: Active Surveillance
Active Surveillance is a revolutionary concept: The thought you can monitor prostate cancer rather than treat prostate cancer. This is a surprising development because anything called cancer, one would assume …