Posts Tagged ‘Prostate cancer’

Pro Bowl and Super Bowl players have joined Mike Haynes team of Know your Stats about Prostate Cancer this week. NFL VIPs are converging for prostate screening tests sponsored by the NFL Player Care Fund. On the Know your Stats, website Mike has listed the luminaries on his team which include the sportscaster Chris Berman, Ray Lewis, Ron Woodson, Marv Levy, Joe Greene, Tony Dorsett, Len Dawson, and Andre Tippett. You can go to the On the Know your Stats website and take the Rank Your Risk questionnaire and see who else is on the Know Your Stats team.

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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Question:

“My dad was diagnosed with prostate cancer and the doctor said the bacteria is really bad. We can’t touch it or open it to see where it has spread. If we do the bacteria will spread quickly throughout his body and he can die. So what stage does this mean my dad is in and is this treatable?”

Answer:

It is a very interesting question regarding Bacteremia.  What we assume was Bacteremia after the prostate biopsy and what happens now is that a lot of bacteria are becoming resistant to the most common antibiotic used to prevent infection, which are the group of antibiotics called quinolones and when this occurs, the patients may have bacteria in the bloodstream. This may require intravenous antibiotics and long-acting antibiotics.  Now, this has nothing to do with the prostate cancer and in fact, what needs to be done about the situation is to treat the inflammation, and after the inflammation is controlled and the infection is controlled, then the prostate cancer can be treated.  In general, prostate cancer tumors are slow-growing, they take time to grow, and they may take months to years to spread out.  Thus, when we see the patients, we always tell them that there is no hurry to treat the prostate cancer unless there are tumors found.

by Dr Fernando J Bianco
Miami urology