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Dr. Stacy Loeb, a lead on a team of researchers at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, presents findings from a recently published study on women's sexual health and quality of life when their partner is on the prostate cancer journey. The study uncovered key challenges faced by patients' wives and female partners. Dr. Loeb explains the evaluative survey developed to help patients and their partners...

Dr. Allison Applebaum discusses the timely topic of care partnering with a loved one experiencing chronic illness, such as prostate cancer in this National Family Caregivers Month episode. She presents key aspects of successful and balanced caregiving from her recently published book Stand By Me: Navigating Modern, Meaningful Caregiving , and touches on the unique challenges faced by care partners...

Negative side effects of prostate cancer treatment can leave men facing the physical and emotional challenges of erectile dysfunction. Yet, prostate cancer patients do not have to resign themselves to permanent erectile dysfunction or the complete loss of sexual function as a side effect of their treatment. Urologist and men's sexual health specialist, Dr. Amy Pearlman believes "every man can be h...

For many of us, our urologists arrived in our lives at a time of crisis and have confined their care to managing our prostate cancer diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up. But in an engaging conversation with host Ed Randall, Dr. Michael Volpe walks us through the gamut of urinary and reproductive organ conditions a urologist might encounter in a clinical practice. Dr. Volpe also suggests that as we...

Before he created The Active Surveillor.com, Howard Wolinsky was a medical writer for the Chicago Sun-Times for nearly thirty years and a regular contributor to MedPage Today and Medscape. When he was diagnosed with Gleason 6 (now also called GG1) prostate he said no thanks as he was being rushed to take on a radical treatment option. Thirteen years down the road from his cancer diagnosis he is on...

Named by Forbes Magazine in a cover story as The Man Who Changed Medicine , Michael Milken is the founder of the Prostate Cancer Foundation (1993). Recently, Esquire named him one of the 75 "Most Influential People of the 21st Century." In a wide-ranging conversation with host Ed Randall, Milken provides insights about exciting advancements in the diagnosis, treatment, and eradication of prostate...

MRI-guided radiotherapy has brought new treatment protocols and staffing models to prostate cancer oncology at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, according to educator/researcher/clinician, Dr. Jonathan Leeman. "Seeing while we treat" has made cutting-edge SBRT radiation delivery a game-changer for his patients.

Leading physician and Cyberknife pioneer, Jonathan Haas, MD, is the Chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology at NYU Long Island School of Medicine. In a recent conversation on our highly rated Stay in the Game podcast, Dr. Haas eloquently talked through the many treatment options for prostate cancer – and how bringing a holistic approach to treating the disease provides patients with more opt...