The Prostate Advocate

5-Alpha Reductase (5AR) Inhibitor Role in Androgen Deprivation Therapy

A Wake Up Call To Men & The Women Who Care About Them

Active Surveillance

ADT Side Effects

Advanced Prostate Cancer/High Gleason Score At Diagnosis

Advocacy and SUPPORT

Alternative Therapies

An Example Of Maintaining Prostate Cancer Statistics

Anatomy of the Prostate

Androgens And Prostate Cancer

Appropriate Androgen Deprivation Therapy for Advanced and Recurring Prostate Cancer

Are My Efforts a Ministry?

Avodart Or Proscar

Background Information Regarding Androgen Deprivation and the use of 5-Alpha Reductase Inhibitors

The Battle With Prostate Cancer

Best Among The Rest (Physicians Regarding Most All Options Of Treatment)

Biopsy Importance of Expert Pathology Opinion

Bi-Polar? Be careful with Testosterone Replacement Therapy

Bisphosphonates & Dental Considerations

Bladder and Rectal Radiation Issues Post-RP

Bladder, Urethra, Pelvic Pain? Frequent Urination?

Blood in Urine or Ejaculate

Books for the Prostate Cancer Patient and Caregivers

BPH Treatment Considerations

Brachytherapy Preceded by ADT - Caution!

Brachytherapy Seed Radiation Concerns

Brachytherapy Side Effects - What to Expect and What to Avoid

Blood Sugar Level

Can Sperm Still Process And Be Recovered Following Removal Of Or Radiation To The Prostate Gland?

Chemotherapy Considerations When Docetaxel/Taxotere Failing

Chemotherapy Side Effects

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome CFS

Coenzyme (COQ) 10 - Good Or Bad?

Continuing Penile Pain Following Surgery

Cryotherapy - A Patient's Personal Experience

Denosumab/Xgeva Approved For Patients On ADT

Diet And Supplement Considerations

Dihydrotestosterone (DHT) Controversy in Androgen Deprivation Therapy (ADT)

Elevated PSA but Negative Biopsy

End of Life Considerations

Erectile Dysfunction

Erectile Expectations Following Prostate Cancer Treatment

Evidence Based Medicine

Excercise Considerations

Flare (Side Effect when starting ADT)

Flaxseed or Flaxseed Oil

Flomax - IMPORTANT - Be Aware!

Grapefruit Caution

Grieving Process And Planning Ahead For The Loss Of A Loved One

HIFU (High Intensity Focused Ultrasound)

History Of Us TOO Intl., And The Wichita, Kansas Chapter

How To Be Recognized By Your Secretary Of State And The Internal Revenue Service As A Not-For-Profit Charitable Organization Tax Exempt Under Section 501(C)(3) Of The Internal Revenue Code

How to Peel Potatoes Without a Potato Peeler! (Just something to get off prostate cancer for a moment and show you a great work saver)

How to pick a Prostate Cancer Surgeon

How To Start A New Us TOO Chapter

Importance Regarding Gleason Score 3 Plus 3 Six

Incontinence (Dealing with Incontinence after Treatment for Prostate Cancer)

Intimacy Challenged by Surgery, Radiation, or ADT

Kegel Exercises for Urinary Continence

Ketoconazole (High Dose/HDK) w/Hydrocortisone)

Leukine, Cytoxan, Revlimid, Celebrex, Prescribed for Prostate Cancer

LHRH Agonists GnRH Antagonist and Low Testosterone Concern

Libido Issues as the result of Androgen Deprivation Therapy

Low Finances, Little Income for Medications?

Mechanical Failure and What's Sex Got To Do With It

Medical Insurance Acceptance

Medical Oncologist Bob Leibowitz

Medical Oncologist Charles E. “Snuffy” Myers

Medical Oncologist Stephen B. Strum

My Reason for Prostate Cancer Advocacy

New Organizations offering Team Expertise in Research, Diagnostics, and Treatment of Unusual and Aggressive Cancers

Newly Diagnosed - Some Basic Considerations

NO MORE PSA TESTING? My rebuttal to the USPSTF

Non-Traditional Medications? Beware!

Oatmeal, All Bran, Fiber One, other fiber products at the same time as taking medications

Orgasmic Pain following RP or RT

Osteonecrosis Of The Jaw (ONJ)

Osteopenia, Osteoporosis, Bone Resorption

PAP, CGA, CEA and NSE Biomarkers

Pathologists Specializing in Prostate Cancer

Patient Empowerment

Pelvic Pain (NEW)

Penile Fracture? It Can Happen!

Penile Injections - Questions Answers Visual

Peyronie's Disease

Practices Important to begin Prior to and Continuing Beyond Surgical Removal of or Radiation Therapy to the Prostate Gland

Pre-existing Condition Insurance Plan

Principled Medicine: Using Concepts to Promote Superior Medical Outcomes/Stephen B. Strum, M.D., FACP

Principles for Managing Advanced Prostate Cancer

Prolactin Level

Prostate Calculator

Prostate Cancer and What Constitutes Being a Man

Prostate Cancer Metastasized to the Lungs

Prostate Cancer Mortality based on diagnostics while on ADT

Prostate Cancer Prevention with finasteride/Proscar or dutasteride/Avodart?

Prostate Cancer Spreads to Bones - Then What?

Prostatitic Stones and Chronic Prostatitis

Proton Beam Therapy (PBT)

Provenge (sipuleucel-T)

PSA Elevation Post Surgery or Radiation

PSA Fluctuations in the Ultrasensitive Range following Surgical Removal of the Prostate Gland

PSA Levels post-Photon and post-Proton Radiation Therapy

PSA TEST - What to Avoid Prior to the Test

PSA Testing? Over Treatment? Active Surveillance? Biopsy Value? No PSA For Elderly?

QCT BMD Imaging vs DEXA BMD Imaging

Questions to Ask Your Physician

Radiation using IMRT, Seeds, and ADT

Recently Diagnosed with Prostate Cancer

Rectal Pain or Bleeding Prolonged following Radiotherapy

Recurring Prostate Cancer

Robot assisted Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy (RaLRP)

Salvage Radical Prostatectomy for Failed Radiation Therapy?

Saw Palmetto – Worthless!

Screening - I'm Mad as Hell!

Targeted Focal (subtotal) Therapy for Early Stage Prostate Cancer

Taxotere as soon as HRPC is Evident?

Taxotere in Your Future

Testosterone Failure following Continuous, Long-term, Androgen Deprivation Therapy with an LHRH agonist or GnRH antagonist

Testosterone Replacement Therapy (TRT)

The Clock of Life

The Importance Of 5-Alpha Reductase Inhibitors

The REAL case for finasteride/Proscar and dutasteride/Avodart

Transdermal Estradiol (TDE) Androgen Deprivation Therapy

Triple-hormonal Blockade (ADT3) Reasoning

Understanding 1,25 Vitamin D And 25-Hydroxy Vitamin D

Urinary Stricture or Scarring Repair

USPIO (Ultrasmall Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide) Imaging

Vacuum Erection Devices (VED)

Vitamin D3 Level And Safe Daily Intake

Warning when Prescribed an Antibiotic

What Every Physician Who Treats Male Patients Should Know (Strum & Pogliano)

What is Prostate Cancer? What Causes Prostate Cancer?

What Men Say About Surviving Prostate Cancer

When Failing Chemotherapy And The Physicians Say There Is No More They Can Do For You

When to Administer a Bone Scan for Newly Diagnosed Prostate Cancer Patients

Who, What is Us TOO?

Why We Volunteer (In Support Group Leadership/Advocacy)