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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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Prostate cancer screening will be available Super Bowl week for NFL alumni and current National Football League players. This prostate cancer awareness program was started by the National Football League and the American Urological Association, and it is sponsored by the NFL Player Care Fund.

This year’s event should have a larger number of players attending the prostate cancer screening since the Pro Bowl is bringing the top players in the NFL to Miami the week before the Super Bowl. Many of the Pro Bowl players would love to have their family and friends stay in our South Florida paradise for a week to go to the big game.

Dr Fernando J Bianco the Chief of Robotic Surgery for the Columbia University Division of Urology at Mt Sinai Medical Center on Miami Beach will be there performing the screening at this years event.

We will keep you posted each day on the developments of this Super Bowl XLIV kick off event as they unfold.

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