Comments on: In the course of the last 15 years, I’ve seen 3 urologists for various issues, from vasectomy to kidney stones. In each case I made them aware of my family’s history of prostate cancer. My paternal uncle died from it. My father had surgery at 74. My oldest brother has had bracytherapy. Another older brother is still deciding on his treatment option and third brother had da Vinci surgery. Although the cancers my brothers have are more recent, at NO TIME in the course of 15 years has a single urologist made concrete suggestions on lifestyle changes, such as diet or weight loss, or dietary supplements, or medicines, that might have prevented the development of prostate cancer, which I now have too. So my question – and challenge – is, why is the urological establishment so deficient in offering this advice? To my mind it borders on malpractice.

Comments on: In the course of the last 15 years, I’ve seen 3 urologists for various issues, from vasectomy to kidney stones. In each case I made them aware of my family’s history of prostate cancer. My paternal uncle died from it. My father had surgery at 74. My oldest brother has had bracytherapy. Another older brother is still deciding on his treatment option and third brother had da Vinci surgery. Although the cancers my brothers have are more recent, at NO TIME in the course of 15 years has a single urologist made concrete suggestions on lifestyle changes, such as diet or weight loss, or dietary supplements, or medicines, that might have prevented the development of prostate cancer, which I now have too. So my question – and challenge – is, why is the urological establishment so deficient in offering this advice? To my mind it borders on malpractice. http://prostatecanceradvice.org Prostate Cancer Prognosis, Questions and Answers Tue, 05 Jan 2010 06:25:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3