Super Bowl prostate screening with Dr. Bianco of Miami Urology

The NFL players came to the Super Bowl prostate screening in Fort Lauderdale on Wednesday from 10 am to 4 PM and Mount Sinai’s Dr  Bianco was there performing the exams and meeting the NFL players. Throughout the day NFL players came to participate in the Know Your Stats prostate screening program that was sponsored by the NFL Player Care Foundation during this year’s South Florida’s Super Bowl activities.

The atmosphere was relaxed and both the doctors and players had great facilities including possibly the largest exam room in the world (pictures of it in on our next post and you can decide). The Renaissance Fort Lauderdale Hotel was beautiful. The staff at the sign up table, the team drawing the samples for the PSA, and the technicians Manning the machines that were on working display that processed the samples within 10 minutes were all very chipper.

Doctors came from several areas of South Florida, to help out with the AUA’s and NFL”s prostate screening this year. Dr Bianco was having fun talking to the players, being interviewed for the newscasts, even meeting an old college friend that also became urologist. Dr Bianco was explaining about the new South Florida robotic center that he heads up for the Columbia University Division of Urology on Miami Beach and about his transitioning from  open and laparoscopic surgery to performing the da Vinci prostatectomy ((robotic prostate removal). Dr Bianco was explaining that by performing hundreds of robotic surgeries you become attuned to the nuances and advantages that the micro fine movements, 360 degree manipulation and the magnified 3D view offers. Dr Bianco also performs cystectomy (bladder removal), and nephrectomy (kidney removal) procedures with the daVinci robot.

So which team was the favorite to win the Super Bowl this Sunday at the prostate screening?

This Miami urology reporter was not surprised who the favorite was, since Miami is an AFC town. It shouldn’t take a Super Bowl for men to get their prostate screening, but it is a lot more fun.

Tomorrow: pictures.

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As the Pro Bowl and Super Bowl players and coaches take their games seriously they are also here to sending a signal to the public that early detection is very serious when it comes to men’s health . Mount Sinai Medical Center’s Columbia Division of Urology has the best urologists in Florida to perform robotic surgery for prostate removal and every treatment for prostate cancer but a prostate cancer screening that catches your disease early gives you the chance of a better outcome. So talk to your doctor about getting your prostate cancer screening.

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Our Miami urologist Dr Fernando Bianco will be performing the prostate cancer screening exams for the AUA and NFL Player Care Association. As the Chief of Robotic Surgery for Columbia University Division of Urology at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach doctor Bianco knows the importance of early detection of prostate cancer. This includes starting a baseline blood test at the age of 40.

At 40 years of age you should get your prostate specific antigen (PSA) test done (a blood test) so that you have the amount of PSA that is in your blood to tract for the rest of your life. This very first PSA test is called your PSA baseline. As your life progresses, you will be able to compare the different PSA test results with your original baseline test. Watching the level of PSA in your blood is one of the determining factors that will help your urologist decide if you should have a prostate biopsy performed. Another aspect of your PSA levels that your doctor looks at is the rate that your PSA levels rise in each successive PSA test which is known as PSA velocity. Having a high PSA result can tip you off that there may be caner in your prostate. Prostate enlargement, prostatitis, aging, and even supplements can make your PSA numbers rise. That is why the American Urological Society AUA guidelines include many different factors that the urologists and their patients should look at before deciding to have a prostate biopsy. Some of the other indicators that are considered are a quick one minute digital rectal exam where the doctor uses his finger to feel the prostate to “see” if there are any nodules or unevenness to the prostate. Age is also taken into account along with family history, ethnicity, and medical history.

Mike Hayne’s “Know your Stats about Prostate Cancer ‘All-star team is full of the best stars in the history of the NFL, so in our next post, we will show you who they are. Of course this is Miami, and right now the best in the NFL are getting ready for the Pro Bowl kick off and the Miami urology team is off to watch the game.

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More than 192,000 men in the United States will be diagnosed with prostate cancer this year. When caught and treated early, prostate cancer has a cure rate of over 90%. Take this opportunity to have a free screening.

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Aventura, FL 33180
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Free PSA blood test and Physical Exam for Prostate Cancer

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Frequent urination or urinary frequency creates life altering problems that should be corrected early, to remove the impending medical, social, financial, emotional and physical events that eventually happen when the uncorrected urinary system worsens.

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Dr Alan Nieder, Dr Fernando J Bianco, Dr Aaron E Katz, and Dr Mitchell C Benson are part of the Columbia University Division of Urology giving a free prostate exam and lectures that cover symptoms of prostate cancer such as blood in urine, painful urination, microhematuria, and high PSA. Prostate removal methods, robotic prostatectomy and prostate cryotherapy (freezing the prostate) will also be covered.

Miami urology prostate cancer screening exams and lecture dates, location and times are:

Get Tested for Prostate Cancer
Free PSA and DRE exam
Saturday, September 19
10am – 1pm
Church of the Open Door
6001 NW 8 Avenue
Miami, FL
No RSVP required.

Get Tested for Prostate Cancer
Free PSA and DRE exam
Wednesday, September 23
9:00 am – 12:00 p.m.
Mount Sinai Comprehensive Cancer Center
3rd floor
4306 Alton Road
Miami Beach, FL 33180
RSVP to 305-535-3333

Prostate Cancer: Risks, Warning Signs and Treatments
“Ask the Experts” Free Lecture Series
Dr. Alan Nieder, urologist
Columbia University Division of Urology at Mount Sinai Medical Center
Thursday, Sept 24
10 am to 12:00 pm
Aventura Community Recreation Center
3375 NE 188 St.
Aventura, FL 33180
RSVP to 305-674-2600
Refreshments will be served. Space is limited.

Miami-urology.com gives a more detailed description of prostate cancer surgery and treatment of prostate cancer or if you would like to make an appointment.

Prostate removal is delicately performed by the da Vinci robot

There is a close up flash slide show of a grape being peeled surgically by the da Vinci Robot. The website also explains some of the medical testing that is done before surgery is performed. There are descriptions of the surgical robot compared to the free hand laparoscopic procedure. The next website will be on blood in urine and painful urination.