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 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 …
Relapsed Prostate Cancer After Surgery
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, …
Prostate Vanguard E004: Elevated PSA
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 …
Prostate Vanguard E003: Useful Imaging
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 …
Alternative Therapies for Prostate Cancer
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 …
Prostate Vanguard E002: No More Random Biopsies
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 …