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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 …
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, …
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 …
BY MARK SCHOLZ, MD What is the most frightening thing about cancer? For many, it’s the chance the cancer might return after surgery. With most common cancers—colon, breast, brain, melanoma, …
WHAT IF I HAVE AN ELEVATED PSA So what do you do when you have a high PSA? Is simply doing a scan enough? The scan not only helps men …
IS IT POSSIBLE TO SKIP A BIOPSY? We’ve been talking a lot about the different types of biopsies – targeted vs random and all these new developments. But what’s really …
BY MARK SCHOLZ, MD Being diagnosed with cancer often stimulates people into action and triggers powerful survival instincts. Numerous purveyors of alternative medicine cater to these natural fears, and in …
NO MORE RANDOM BIOPSIES. Over a million men get a prostate biopsy every year and quite often, in fact almost always, they are unaware of how dangerous a biopsy can …
Why do we have scans all of a sudden as of 2013 for prostate cancer? We’ve had mammograms for years, we’ve had chest CTs for lung cancer – the problem …
BY MARK SCHOLZ, MD If you are thinking about revealing that you have been diagnosed with prostate cancer, whether it’s to a family member, friend, or an acquaintance, you may …