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How can we make prostate cancer screenings more helpful? Prof. Hendrik Van Poppel, MD, PhD has performed more than 2500 radical prostatectomies. For eight years, he had been the director of the European School of Urology (ESU), before becoming EAU Adjunct Secretary General, responsible for...

How to ensure accurate results from a prostate biopsy? Suppose you've ever undergone a prostate biopsy. In that case, you may have wondered if the results are accurate, especially when the biopsy only retrieves minimal tissue from a large prostate. In this episode, we have invited Dr. Geo, an...

Welcome to today's episode featuring Dr. Andrew J. Stevenson, a board-certified urologist, and professor at Rush Medical College in Chicago. Dr. Stevenson is a specialist in malignant urinary tract cancers, including prostate, bladder, and testes. He is an expert in utilizing minimally invasive...

Sigrid Carlsson, MD, Ph.D., MPH, Assistant Attending Epidemiologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), discusses the current state of prostate cancer screening, focusing on PSA screening, risk calculators, biomarkers, and MRI. While not a perfect tool, PSA screening reduces...

Hey guys, I got some alarming labs back a few weeks ago and am trying to make the right adjustments to my dosing protocol. This is a long post, so I hope it doesn't get ignored. I would really appreciate some help and I'm trying to give you any info that you might need without forcing you to...

As part of the 2022 Prostate Cancer Patient Conference, Dr. Eric Small discusses androgen deprivation therapy and prostate cancer.

Optimizing Management of High-risk Prostate Cancer Patients by Dr. Stephanie Boret, MD, Uro-oncology Fellow, Department of Urologic Sciences, University of British Columbia

Neil H. Baum, MD, and E. David Crawford, MD, discusses the educational mission of GRU, as well as prostate cancer screening, detection, and treatment. Are big changes coming? 13:22-15:22

A common question in our comments section is whether the digital rectal exam (DRE), also known as the "finger test," is still relevant in 2023. Here, medical oncologist Mark Scholz, MD, argues that the DRE is low-risk and still valuable because it can catch low-PSA-producing cancers that would...

The video features Dr. Mark Scholz discussing prostatitis and prostate cancer and how they affect PSA levels. Prostatitis is inflammation of the prostate that can come from various causes, including infection and autoimmune reactions. The chronic low-grade form of prostatitis is common and...

Mark Scholz, MD, is a medical oncologist who specializes exclusively in prostate cancer. Here, he gives a detailed survey of the best tools for staging newly diagnosed prostate cancer, describes the implications of the new PSMA PET scan, and answers other questions related to the diagnostic and...

In this clip from our 2022 mid-year update conference, Mark Moyad, MD, MPH asks Matthew Cooperberg, MD, MPH, about the use of Avodart (dutasteride) and Proscar (finasteride) in men on active surveillance. Dr. Cooperberg explains that the early belief that these medications increased the...

40-year-old make been on injectable TRT (Sustanol) for c 10 years Three PSA tests between 2018, and last week all 0.6 ug/L (<2.5) Symptoms of BPH frequent urination, hesitancy, weak flow, stop-start, waking up to pee etc (put it down to excessive fluid and caffeine intake, but systems are still...

Testosterone (T) Challenge in Men Post-Radical Prostatectomy (RP) with Profoundly Low Testosterone (2022) JFlores Martinez, JPMulhall, SDeveci, KMatsushita, JTorremade, CASalter Introduction Prostate-specific antigen is the primary marker of prostate cancer recurrence. PSA secretion is T...

TESTOSTERONE THERAPY IN MEN ON ACTIVE SURVEILLANCE FOR PROSTATE CANCER (2022) Jose M. Flores, Carolyn A. Salter, Nicole Benfante, Lawrence Jenkins, Behfar Ehdaie, Vincent Laudone, James Eastham, and John P. Mulhall Abstract INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE: The role of testosterone therapy (TTH)...

This data was first discussed here a year or so ago when it was released as a poster. It was now just published in a major urology journal. Bascially it suggested that 75 or 100mg of "Xyosted" (SubQ enanthate) each week leads to lower HCT/E2/PSA than does 100mg of IM cypionate. This is a poor...

In 6 months my total PSA went from 1.4 ng/dL to 10.6 ng/dL! This freaked me out like crazy, especially since my dad passed away two years ago from prostate cancer and that was literally the exact way he found out that he had prostate cancer. I am in my 30s. So a jump that high in just 6...

Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) is one of the best-known biomarkers for screening, diagnosis, and follow-up of patients for prostate cancer. Owing to several inherent limitations with PSA, various newer blood and urinary-based biomarkers have been evaluated in pursuit of better detection and...

Hello all. 57 and have been on TRT for a couple years, 200mg divided up into 2 x/week. Just moved and started with the VA in Arizona. Got some labs and all looked good except for a PSA of 4.3. Has been creeping up for a few years and the VA is balking at writing a script for drug. Am now...

In the spring of 2020 after being on TRT for 5 years, I stopped suddenly last year when I was diagnosed with prostate cancer with 9 of 12 biopsy cores were cancerous and Gleason score of 6. There was no abnormality detected in rectal exams. My PSA had gradually increased to 11 over a period of...

Do I need to worry? Should I stop trt or hct? Plan to test again in a couple of days.

So I got some Of my labs back and the basics are my T was 1477 Free T-47 SHGB was 30 Hemocrit was 51 Hemoglobin was 17 IGF-1 was 180 PSA-0.6 this was done 24 hours after my last injection. I do 25mg everyday. But my question is, my anxiety has been a little on the higher side lately. I know...

I have been following Nelson and Excelmale for many years and purchased his book about Testosterone a few years back. I really don't know who else to ask about this. I have been on test cyp 200mg/ml doing a once a week 1 ml deep thigh injection for about 8 years. I used to test out around 1100...

I have an appointment with my doctor tomorrow so urgent replies requested! My PSA rose to just above the range and was at 2.6 (max was 2.5). My doctor wanted to take me off TRT and see how it would react. I came off TRT and now it is at 3.0 months later. I do feel discomfort and pressure in...

I often have a few surprises in my blood test results. Today's surprise was estradiol. I attached the last couple of blood test results, one from 1-7-2020 and one from 11/15/2019. Today, the surprise was pretty low E2 levels of 8.9 pg/mpwith a Total T of 650. (I tend to do blood test just...

Curious to see what everyone’s PSA levels are like on TRT. State your age, pre TRT psa and free % levels and what changes you saw in the first year. Any abnormal spikes? 43 - pre trt psa 0.93 - 3 months into trt 0.77, free 45% - 1 year into trt up to 1.8. Retest pending as this result freaked...

As noted in other posts, my PSA leaped dramatically in a little over a year, 1.00 to 2.99. Though still below the magic number of 4.00, the velocity puzzled me and alarmed my doctors. My urologist in Toronto was using words and phrases like “biopsy,” and “suspending your TRT protocol for a...

A “puzzling” velocity rise in my PSA over the last 15 months prompted my urologist to utter the word, “biopsy.” I responded, “SelectMDX,” the reasonably new, non-invasive urine test that tracks two bio-markers and can rule out prostrate cancer with an extremely high degree of certainty. We...

The prostate-specific antigen test is a blood test that measures levels of a protein the prostate gland produces. Men with prostate cancer usually have elevated levels of this protein, but heightened levels do not always mean cancer. Other health conditions may also cause prostate-specific...

I am concerned with my recent labs on my PSA... MY pre-TRT PSA level was .7, after 8 weeks on TRT my PSA level came back .9, then 8 more weeks later my PSA level came back as 1.0... and my recent labs showed "low" Free PSA... at (20) But the doctor told me that since my total PSA was within...

My recent experience with boron. I did blood tests on 1/5/2018, 2/20/2018 and 4/21/2018. The only thing I changed was taking the boron supplement late February. The first month I mixed up my own boron from 20 mule team borax, so I was probably taking 7-10 mg daily, since I would take a...