Prostate Vanguard E004: Elevated PSA
WHAT IF I HAVE AN ELEVATED PSA So what do you do when you have a high PSA? Is simply doing a scan enough? The scan not only helps men …
Prostate Vanguard E003: Useful Imaging
IS IT POSSIBLE TO SKIP A BIOPSY? We’ve been talking a lot about the different types of biopsies – targeted vs random and all these new developments. But what’s really …
Alternative Therapies for Prostate Cancer
BY MARK SCHOLZ, MD Being diagnosed with cancer often stimulates people into action and triggers powerful survival instincts. Numerous purveyors of alternative medicine cater to these natural fears, and in …
Prostate Vanguard E002: No More Random Biopsies
NO MORE RANDOM BIOPSIES. Over a million men get a prostate biopsy every year and quite often, in fact almost always, they are unaware of how dangerous a biopsy can …
Prostate Vanguard E001: Why Prostate Imaging?
Why do we have scans all of a sudden as of 2013 for prostate cancer? We’ve had mammograms for years, we’ve had chest CTs for lung cancer – the problem …
What is a Prostate Vanguard?
Prostate Oncology Specialists in Marina del Rey, CA is leading a movement to help men learn that they have options for their prostate cancer — Dr. Mark Scholz discusses this …
10 Myths of Prostate Cancer
BY MARK SCHOLZ, MD I have cared for prostate cancer patients for more than 20 years. Patients come to me with all kinds of wrong notions. Here are 10 of …
OPKO 4Kscore
BY JEFFREY TURNER, MD We would consider OPKO 4Kscore or Intelliscore ExoDx Prostate as supplemental investigation to a PSA blood test. A typical candidate for an OPKO 4Kscore would be a …
Is It Possible to Substitute a Scan for Prostate Biopsy?
BY MARK SCHOLZ, MD There are two different ways to do a prostate biopsy – targeted and random. The random 12-core prostate biopsy is standard and has been in use for over …
Intelliscore ExoDx and PCA-3
BY JEFFREY TURNER, MD For patients that do have an elevated PSA, there are other screening tools that fit in nicely before doing a biopsy. A few of those are …