If your mom had breast cancer, that could raise your risk for prostate cancer. If you have aggressive prostate cancer, your daughter might be at higher risk for ovarian or breast cancer. Some “bad apple” genes run in families; doctors know what they are, and there’s a blood test to look for them. For the […]
I’ve had a lot of requests to print a talk I recently gave. Here it is. — Janet Recently, I took part in a large, two-day dementia seminar in Prescott, Arizona, presented by Prescott United Methodist Church for the community. There was a full house both days; hundreds of people came, which shows that the […]
Does the Paleo diet, basically, eating lean meats, nuts, fresh fruits and vegetables – foods our Stone Age, hunter-gatherer ancestors could have eaten – really make you feel better? If it does, then why? And how, exactly? What happens to the microbiome – the countless bacteria that live inside the gut – when you stop […]
“There’s no one way to select candidates for active surveillance,” says urologist and molecular biologist Chris Barbieri, M.D., Ph.D., of Weill Cornell Medical College/New York Presbyterian Hospital. In addition to doing molecular research on prostate cancer, he treats men with all kinds of prostate cancer and works with several hundred patients currently on active surveillance. […]
What You Need to Know Is active surveillance right for you? The answer to this question varies, depending on a bunch of factors: your particular form of prostate cancer, your age, and general health, and also on the criteria used to select men for active surveillance programs from hospital to hospital; some are stricter than […]
You’ve Got Prostate Cancer. Now what? You’ve had the PSA test – or more likely, several of them – plus the digital rectal exam, and one or both of these suggested that you needed a biopsy. The biopsy was not fun, but you did it, and then you waited for a pathologist to look at […]
What weird quirk of human nature makes us more excited about a cure than prevention? Imagine the headlines: “Cure for Dementia!” Wouldn’t you want to be one of the lucky ones to have bought stock in that company? I have a friend who’s a dental hygienist, and you couldn’t pay me to do her job: […]