The Basics
- What Is The Prostate?
What Are The Symptoms Of An Enlarged Prostate?- What Is Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia?
- What Are The Problems Associated With An Enlarged Prostate?
- When Should I Contact A Doctor About Prostate Cancer?
- What Is Prostate Cancer And How Common Is It?
- What Is Known About The Causes Of Prostate Cancer?
- How Is Testosterone Related To Prostate Cancer?
- What Is The Prognosis For Recovery From Prostate Cancer?
- Is Prostate Cancer Curable?
Dr. Robert Nadler answers the question: 'What Is The Prostate?'
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Risk Factors - Age, Family History and Lifestyle
- Age & Prostate Cancer Risk, Screening?
- Family History Of Prostate Cancer?
- Genetic Testing For Prostate Cancer?
- Ethnicity And Prostate Cancer Risk?
- Alcohol And Prostate Cancer Risk?
- Environment And Prostate Cancer?
- Lifestyle And Prostate Cancer Risk?
- Does Where I Live Affect My Risk?
- Sex Practices And Prostate Cancer Risk?
- Vasectomy And Prostate Cancer Risk?
Dr. Bruce Trock answers the question: 'Age And Prostate Cancer Risk?'
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Risk Factors - Diet
- Do Certain Foods Increase My Risk?
- Diet And Prostate Cancer Prevention?
- Do Vitamins Lower Prostate Cancer Risk?
- Supplements To Lower Prostate Risk?
- Telling My Doctor I Take Supplements?
- Do Antioxidants Lower Prostate Risk?
- Does Boron Lower Prostate Cancer Risk?
- Do Charred Meats Affect Prostate Risk?
- Link Between Soy And Prostate Cancer?
- Vitamin D And Prostate Cancer?
- Link Between Lycopene & Prostate Cancer?
- Link Between Zinc And Prostate Cancer?
- Link Between Selenium & Prostate Cancer?
Dr. Candance Johnson answers the question: 'Do Certain Foods Increase My Risk?'
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Symptoms and Screening
- Warning Signs Of Prostate Cancer?
- Screening Tests For Prostate Cancer?
- How Is Prostate Cancer Diagnosed?
- Reasons To Not Test For Prostate Cancer?
- Free Screenings For Prostate Cancer?
- What Is A PSA Test , Normal Level?
- How Reliable Are PSA Tests?
- How Do PSA Levels Change With Age?
- Do High PSA Levels Indicate Cancer?
- What's A Digital Rectal Exam, How Often?
- Benefits Of A Digital Rectal Exam?
- Digital Rectal Exam, PSA Test Or Both?
Dr. Rosalia Viterbo answers the question: 'Warning Signs Of Prostate Cancer?'
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Biopsy and Pathology
- What Is A TRUS-Guided Biopsy?
- Can A TRUS 'See' Prostate Cancer?
- Preparing For A TRUS-Guided Biopsy?
- Returning To Work After A Biopsy?
- Role Of Pathologist In Diagnosis?
- Biopsy Results Negative/Positive?
- Prostate Cancer Tumor Classifications?
- What Is The Gleason Scale?
- What Is High-Grade PIN?
- Atypical Small Acinar Proliferation?
- Will A Biposy Let The Cancer Spread?
Dr. David Jarrard answers the question: 'What Is A TRUS-Guided Biopsy?'
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General Questions About Treating Prostate Cancer
- Low Risk Vs. High Risk Prostate Cancer?
- What Is 'Aggressive' Prostate Cancer?
- Predicting Prognosis Of Prostate Cancer?
- Treatment Options For Prostate Cancer?
- Multidisciplinary Treatment Approach?
- Most Important Issues Before Treatment?
- Role Of Primary Care Doc In Treatment?
- Second Opinion Before Treatment?
- Medical Oncologist For Prostate Cancer?
- How Do I Know Treatment Is Working?
- What Is The 'Watchful Waiting' Approach?
- What Is Metastatic Prostate Cancer?
- Metastatic Prostate Cancer Treatment?
- Meaning Of 'Curable' Prostate Cancer?
Dr. Viterbo answers the question: 'Low Risk Vs. High Risk Prostate Cancer?'
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General Questions About Surgery
- Potential Prostatectomy Complications?
- Best Surgery For Prostate Cancer?
- Alternatives When Surgery Is No Option?
- Getting A Second Opinion Before Surgery?
- Should I Donate Blood Before Surgery?
- What Should I Expect Before Surgery?
- Pain Management After Prostectomy?
- Recovery Time After Prostate Surgery?
- Catheter After Prostate Surgery?
- Checking PSA Levels After Surgery?
- Special Diet After Prostate Surgery?
- Will There Be Scarring After Surgery?
- Erectile Dysfunction After Surgery?
- Urinary Incontinence After Surgery?
- Bowel Function Impacts After Surgery?
Dr. Mark Gonzalgo answers the question: 'Potential Prostatectomy Complications?'
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Prostatectomies (Removing the Prostate)
- What's A Radical Perineal Prostatectomy?
- What's A Radical Retropubic Prostectomy?
- Risks Of Radical Prostectomy?
- Perineal Vs. Retropubic Approach?
- Hospital Stay After Prostatectomy?
- More Treatment After Prostatectomy?
- Sex Life After A Radical Prostatectomy?
- Incontinence Post Radical Prostatectomy?
- What Is Laparoscopy, When Is It Used?
- Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy?
- What Is A Robotic Radical Prostatectomy?
- Who Gets Robotic/Laparoscopic Surgery?
- Urologists And Newer Prostate Surgeries?
- Will I Stay Overnight After Surgery?
- Success of Different Prostatectomies?
Dr. Walsh answers the question: 'What Is A Radical Perineal Prostatectomy?'
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External Radiation Therapy
- What Is Image-Guided Radiation Therapy?
- Radiation Therapy For Prostate Cancer?
- Different Types of Radiation Therapy?
- Will Radiation Cause Cancer Later?
- External Beam Radiation Therapy Types?
- What Is Intensity Modulated Radiation?
- What Is Proton Beam Radiation Therapy?
- Can Radiation Cure Prostate Cancer?
- Did External Radiation Therapy Work?
- Is Prostate Surgery OK After Radiation?
- Why Combine Radiation With Hormones?
- Combining Hyperthemia And Radiation?
- Do Radiation Treatments Hurt?
- Focusing Radiation Only On Prostate?
- Do I Stay In The Hospital For Radiation?
Dr. Horwitz answers the question: 'What Is Image-Guided Radiation Therapy?'
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Seed Implant Therapy (Brachytherapy)
- Seed Implant Side Effects And Risks?
- How Is Seed Implantation Done
- When Is Seed Implant Therapy Not Done?
- External Beam Vs. Seed Implant Therapy?
- Targeted Reseeding If PSA Still Rising?
- What Is Post-Seed Implant Edema?
- Radioactivity After Seed Implantation?
- Seed Implants And Kids, Pregnant Women?
- Seed Implant Exposure To Wife, Family?
- Recovery Time After Seed Implantation?
- Prostate Surgery After Seed Implants?
- What If A Seed Comes Out In My Urine?
- Incontinence After Seed Implant Therapy?
- Sexual Side Effects Of Seed Implants?
- What If A Seed Comes Out During Sex?
Dr. Horwitz answers the question: 'Seed Implant Side Effects And Risks?'
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Cryosurgery and Cryotherapy
- What Is Cryosurgery, When Is It Used?
- Standard vs. Focal Cryosurgery?
- How Successful Is Cryosurgery?
- Urinary Incontinence After Cryosurgery?
- Becoming Impotent After Cryosurgery?
- Prostatectomy After Cryosurgery?
- How Do I Know That Cryosurgery Worked?
- Do I Need A Catheter After Cryosurgery?
Dr. David Levy answers the question: 'What Is Cryosurgery, When Is It Used?'
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Watchful Waiting (Active Surveillance)
- What Is The Watchful Waiting Approach?
- Good Candidates For Watchful Waiting?
- Treatment After Watchful Waiting?
- Won't Cancer Spread Without Treatment?
- Watchful Waiting And Aggressive Cancer?
- More Biopsies With Watchful Waiting?
- PSA Checked During Watchful Waiting?
Dr. David Chen answers the question: 'What Is The Watchful Waiting Approach?'
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Hormone Therapy
- Hormone Therapy For Prostate Cancer?
- Do All Men Respond To Hormone Therapy?
- Hormone Therapy Effects on Mood, Weight?
- Hormone Therapy And Osteoporosis?
- Hormone Therapy And Heart Attacks?
- Side Effects Once Hormone Therapy Ends?
- Hormone Treatment And Hot Flashes?
- Non-Medical Ways To Handle Hot Flashes?
- Medical Ways To Deal With Hot Flashes?
- Hormone Refractory Prostate Cancer?
- Hormone Therapy Before Surgery?
- Hormone Therapy And Radiation Treatment?
- Androgen Suppression Therapy?
- Side Effects Of Androgen Ablation?
- Primary Androgen Therapy By Itself?
Dr. Matthew Smith answers the question: 'Hormone Therapy For Prostate Cancer?'
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Chemotherapy
- Chemotherapy For Prostate Cancer?
- Chemotherapy The Same For All Cancers?
- How Long Will I Receive Chemotherapy?
- Chemotherapy And Other Medications?
- Chemotherapy And Surviving Cancer?
- Role Of An Oncology Nurse During Chemo?
- Do I Need A Companion For Chemotherapy?
- Why Do I Need Dental Care Before Chemo?
- Taking Care of Myself During Chemo?
- Acupuncture For Chemo Pain, Nausea?
Susan F. Slovin, M.D., Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
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Other Treatments
- Herbal Treatments For Prostate Cancer?
- High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound?
- Interstitial Microwave Thermoablation?
- Transurethral Resection Of The Prostate?
- Diet And Prostate Cancer Treatment?
- What Are Anti-Angiogenesis Treatments?
- What Are Prostate Cancer Vaccines?
- Immunotherapy For Prostate Cancer?
- Gene Therapy For Prostate Cancer?
- Gene Therapy Versus Immunotherapy?
Michael Carducci, M.D., Professor, Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center
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Salvage Therapy
- What Is Salvage Therapy?
- Treatment Course For Salvage Therapy?
- Salvage Therapy After Primary Therapy?
- Who Gets Salvage Radiation Therapy?
- Risks/Side Effects Of Salvage Radiation?
- Salvage Treatments After Radiation?
- Was My Salvage Therapy Effective?
Matthew Cooney, M.D., University Hospitals
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Living with Prostate Cancer - Newly Diagnosed
- Advice For New Prostate Cancer Patients?
- Lifestyle Changes With Prostate Cancer?
- PSA Checks During Cancer Treatment?
- Recurrence Rate Of Prostate Cancer?
- Can I Decrease My Risk Of Recurrence?
- Relieving The Pain Of Metastatic Cancer?
- When Is Prostate Cancer Is Incurable?
- Emotions With Prostate Cancer Diagnosis?
- Telling Family About My Prostate Cancer?
- Benefits Of A Cancer Support Group?
- Help At Home During Cancer Treatments?
- Disclosing My Prostate Cancer At Work?
- Disability For Prostate Cancer?
- No Health Insurance For Prostate Cancer?
Alvaro Martinez, M.D., Beaumont Hospitals
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Living with Prostate Cancer - Sexual Function
- Erectile Dysfunction & Prostate Cancer?
- Can I Orgasm After Prostate Surgery?
- How Will My Penis Change With Treatment?
- Treatments For Erectile Dysfunction?
- How Does A Penile Prosthesis Work?
- Timing for Penile Prothesis Surgery?
- Nerve Grafts For Erectile Dysfunction?
Dr. James Mohler answers the question: 'Erectile Dysfunction & Prostate Cancer?'
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Living with Prostate Cancer - Incontinence
- Incontinence From Cancer Treatment?
- Treatments For Incontinence?
- Success Rate For Incontinence Surgery?
- Complications From Incontinence Surgery?
- Endoscopic Injections For Incontinence?
- What Is An Artificial Urinary Sphincter?
- Kegel Exercises For Incontinence?
Ted DeWeese, M.D., Johns Hopkins
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