QUEST informs readers of the latest advances in urologic prostate cancer research, especially detection, prevention, and treatment.
In recent years, patients, physicians, and clinical laboratories have become increasingly aware of differences in PSA results when the same patient has more than one test and those blood samples have been sent to different laboratories. It is becoming evident…
Late last August, at the time of the New Moon, on an Island in Northern Lake Michigan, a hopeful and loving couple was able-under trying circumstances- to give life to a child nicknamed “TP” who rests in my arms as…
This is not a doctors column. I am a patient of Dr. Catalona and a member of the URF Board. The Pathology Challenge Prostate cancer begins as cellular mutations, or cancers, in the prostate, produced by our DNA/RNA (genetic) system…
screening is widely used as an aid to early detection of prostate cancer. Early detection increases the opportunity for long-term progression-free survival. Presently, the selection of treatment for early stage prostate cancer involves four choices: radical prostatectomy, brachytherapy, external beam…
Extending the prostate cancer screening interval to 2 or 4 years would substantially delay the detection of advanced prostate cancers, according to a report in the April, 2005 issue of The Journal of Urology. “Even though a relatively small percentage…
I am approximately 18 months post nerve sparing radical prostatectomy. My erectile function is just now beginning to return to near my pre-operation level. I was able to achieve penetration and go to completion using a for the first time…
Recently, 14 men were reported to have developed vision loss (completely reversible in some case, permanent in others) in one or both eyes within 36 hours after . In most of these patients, initial symptoms were blurred vision and some…
Prostate cancer research samples are much more than tissue stored in a freezer at a research center. Behind each sample is a person, a life story and a family history. The McCammons Carol: My husband, Dr. Robert McCammon died this…
This is not a doctors column. I am a patient of Dr. Catalona and a member of the URF Board. In general, the New Era strategy for prostate cancer is to screen and possibly treat men earlier when the cancer…
When I first learned I had prostate cancer, I heard from people about the numbers game, the odds related to prostate cancer: how many men get it; how long they live after diagnosis; how many stay continent; how many stay…
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