When you are going about your everyday life and are suddenly slammed with a cancer diagnosis, you may wonder how this will affect your regular activities. With prostate cancer, there are varying degrees of impact. Men who have prostate cancer that requires treatment will see more impact on their usual activity level, with the degree dependent on the treatment they pursue.
Blog Tags: Quality of life.
When you own your own business, you tend to run pretty hard. Add in building yourself a new home, and you really never stop. Enter: Steve Flatland. This 54-year-old California native is a professional land surveyor, which has him very physically active throughout the day.
Blog Tags: HIFU and Patient Perspective.
When entering the world of prostate care, there are going to be many terms used by physicians with which patients may be unfamiliar. In a previous post, we broke down the tech term “multiparametric-MRI (mp-MRI)”. Now we want to help explain another term, MRI-Ultrasound (MRI-US) Fusion-Guided Prostate Biopsy or Fusion Biopsy
Blog Tags: Tech Terms.
From December 2015 through the end of June 2016, Vituro Health Medical Director Stephen Scionti, M.D., has treated 80 patients with HIFU in Sarasota, Fla. Looking back at treatment outcomes over the past seven months of procedures, he is excited by the data.
Blog Tags: HIFU.
For 57-year-old Melbourne, Fla., resident Ron Robledo, it was never a matter of if he would ever get prostate cancer, it was when he would get prostate cancer. Coming from a family tree full of the disease – Robledo’s father, uncle and oldest brother had prostate cancer – he knew his chances were high to also have it at some point in his life, becoming one of the one in seven men who have the disease in their lifetime.
Blog Tags: Patient Perspective.
