It has been a few weeks since we wrapped up our series on wht happens when you are diagnosed with Prostate can cer. I really hope you found that series helpful and enjoyed Jeff’s first hand view of what it means to have a Prostatectomy. I also hope the series gave everyone some useful information if they ever deal with that challenge. Please reach out to me anytime if we can help you!
It is taking way longer than I anticipated to begin our next series. My challenge is that I am reading through updates from some of the larger Medical Institutes in the country, like The Cleveland Clinic, Harvard Health, UCLA anbd others. What I am finding is a lot of discussion around old topics. I am really not finding anything new or enlightening. But we will keep digging. To give you insight into what I am seeing, it seems all of the diagnostic ttest updates are still all aiming for an end result of a biopsy. Maybe I am just too optimistic for the medical community but I would think by the year 2024 there would be a better way to determine if a man has Prostate cancer that does not involve a biopsy or still using the PSA test! Is this 1994 or 2024?
It is a frustrating challenge but a challenge we must tackle anyway. I am also puzzled at how much literature that is out there saying testosterone has no effect on the prostate and clinical data to back that up; yet the FDA is still approving drugs to work with so called testosterone therapy, which is code for testosterone deprivation! Today I can find a lot more studies that say low testosterone is much more dangerous to men’s health than high testosterone, so what is up?
As we go through this series we will look at all of this and talk about the tools the major researchers are talking about. It may end up being a circular firing squad or it may be very enlightening. At any rate, ready fire, aim!!! Next week we will get into the new series, even if it is slow going at first!!
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