When Men Say Their Dad Died from Bone Cancer… “So many men who come into my clinic and tell me their dad died of bone cancer; it is more likely prostate cancer that spread and they just didn’t know it,” says Kelvin Moses, MD, Director of the Comprehensive Prostate Cancer Clinic at Vanderbilt University. “I’ve […]
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Heavyweight boxing champion Evander Holyfield and sportscaster Brian Custer say to men “Man up and get checked for prostate cancer!“ “As men, we have this ego…we think we’re too macho to go to the doctor and undergo this type of check-up,” says Custer who survived a diagnosis of aggressive prostate cancer at age 42. “But
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Preoperative MRI leads to better outcomes after prostate cancer surgery, but Black and Hispanic men are less likely than White men to receive it, according to a new study led by Alexander Cole, MD, of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. Cole and his colleagues analyzed the medical records of more than 19,000 men, average
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Hispanic men diagnosed with prostate cancer have significant variations in their risk for aggressive cancer, based on their nation of origin, and are less likely to be treated for high-risk disease, according to a new study of more than 895,000 men. “Hispanic men in general have a greater chance of presenting with higher-risk localized prostate
“Black men should start PSA screening earlier” “When we are discussing early-stage prostate cancer, there are no early warning signs or symptoms,” says radiation oncologist Jerome M. Butler, MD, of North Carolina. “Given that we know that African American males have a higher risk of prostate cancer, we believe that prostate cancer screening cannot be
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar “If you’re like me, you’d rather talk about basketball or anything other than prostate cancer,” says professional basketball Hall-of-Fame player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. “But we can’t be silent when it comes to our own health. Prostate cancer affects one in eight men in the U.S. I beat it because I was screened and it
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“You can ignore it at your own peril. But if you love your family, love what you do, love the people around you, you’ve got to get screened for prostate cancer. There’s no stigma to it. Just get it done. Make sure you’re going to be around for your family,” says television personality and prostate
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