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Elevated / Newly Diagnosed / Prostate Cancer / Undiagnosed

Avoid Random Biopsy: PSA Screening Flowchart

Elevated PSA does not point specifically to prostate cancer; it is only an indication that further investigation is necessary.  Each year one million men are biopsied when they do not …

Elevated / Prostate Cancer

Stay Away from Random Prostate Biopsy

BY MARK SCHOLZ, MD The Limitations of PSA  PSA is nonspecific.  Meaning it doesn’t distinguish between the harmless, low-grade type of prostate cancer that can be watched and the higher-grade …

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Prostate Vanguard E006: Active Surveillance Scanning and Testing

The process of Active Surveillance, the way we practice in Marina del Rey, is to perform a PSA blood test every three months and plot these results on a graph, …

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Elevated / Newly Diagnosed / Prostate Cancer

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 …

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Elevated / Newly Diagnosed / Prostate Cancer

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 …

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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 …

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Elevated / Newly Diagnosed / Prostate Cancer / Undiagnosed

Evaluate PSA with Imaging, Not Random Biopsy: Avoiding Unnecessary Radical Treatment

BY MARK SCHOLZ, MD Prostate cancer is the most common form of cancer in men.  While some types of prostate cancer are life-threatening, some types are not.  Recent media reports …

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Newly Diagnosed / Prostate Cancer / Undiagnosed

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 …

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