Ideally, food intake should be from whole food sources (unprocessed, unadulterated, natural), with only a small percentage of food products (processed, refined, boxed, bottled, canned, packaged, and powdered). Whole foods provide…

The risk of a sedentary lifestyle is about the same as a pack-a-day smoking habit. “Sitting is the new smoking.” After age 60, just through the normal aging process, men lose 1% of their muscle every year. Hormonal treatments accelerate...

When it comes to dietary supplements, less is more. Mega-doses suggest a worse outcome or prognosis in patients with cancer. 

Proton therapy is simply a beam of protons accurately delivered to a target in a fashion identical to intensity- modulated radiation therapy which uses photons (IMRT ). So, just like IMRT, patients visit a specialized facility and are…

This article will discuss an alternative type of imaging, called color Doppler ultrasound (CDU). Unfortunately, CDU followed by targeted biopsy is available in only a few centers around the United States. Even so, this article will expound the many advantages of CDU for the diagnosis and staging of prostate cancer...

Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT) delivers a much larger dose of radiation per patient visit than IMRT. SBRT technology is relatively new. Thus, there are fewer clinical trials comparing it with other therapies. Despite this, SBRT has...