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 …
Prostate Vanguard E008: Doctors Still Order Random Biopsies Despite Newer Technology
When people hear about multiparametric MRI, accurate imaging of the prostate, they are always surprised that doctors are still doing random biopsies. The question always comes up, “Why are we …
Prostate Vanguard E007: Sequential Scanning
https://youtu.be/1IFjr2fKPaU Patients ask me why their scans have to be repeated. The modern methodology, for monitoring prostate cancer, historically, was putting needles into the prostate on a regular basis. We …
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, …
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 …
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 …
What are the Advantages of Active Surveillance for Prostate Cancer?
BY RICHARD LAM, MD Cancers sometimes never grow, or may do nothing for 10 years, so in a sense, if you prematurely treat it on Day 1, you may have …