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POPSHollywood Actor Dennis Hopper Takes a Break to Battle Cancer LOS ANGELES — Dennis Hopper has been diagnosed with prostate cancer and is canceling all travel plans to focus on treatment, his manager said Thursday. The 73-year-old actor and artist is being treated through a "special program" at the University of Southern California, said Sam Maydew. Asked about Hopper's prognosis, Maydew said, "We're hoping for the best." He would not elaborate on the actor's condition. Hopper was hospitalized in New York earlier this month and treated for dehydration. The "Easy Rider" star recently finished shooting the second season of "Crash," a TV version of the Oscar-winning 2004 film. He plays maniacal music producer Ben Cendars on the series, which airs on the Starz network. Hopper also has several film projects in the works.
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POPSHollywood Actor Dennis Hopper Takes a Break to Battle Cancer LOS ANGELES — Dennis Hopper has been diagnosed with prostate cancer and is canceling all travel plans to focus on treatment, his manager said Thursday. The 73-year-old actor and artist is being treated through a "special program" at the University of Southern California, said Sam Maydew. Asked about Hopper's prognosis, Maydew said, "We're hoping for the best." He would not elaborate on the actor's condition.
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POPSProstate Cancer Surgery Prostate cancer surgery may be done to remove the prostate and its cancer tissues by open surgery or laparoscopic surgery. If you decide to have surgery, then you have a skilled and experienced surgeon Dr. George M. Suarez on whom you can rely on.
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POPSSeriously irritating health reporting by one of my favorite health reporters I hate media reporting about health and medicine Why on earth was this article written without distinguishing between breast and prostate cancer screening at all? There is a difference between the "exaggeration" of risk and benefit claims regarding an effective, proven, life-saving screening test (mammography) and the "exaggeration" of claims regarding an as yet unproven, probably pointless screening test with serious side effects (prostate cancer screening). Sure, both don't work as well as most public health messages claim. But one actually works! ARGH!
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POPS10 Health Benefits Of a Good Sex Life Many people simply enjoy a healthy sex life because sex is pleasurable. Now there’s another reason to stay under the sheets; there are substantial health benefits of sex.
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POPSA funny thing happened on the way to the cancer clinic... More: Being able to laugh in the face of cancer lets you continue to own yourself, as hard as that might be, rather than ceding ownership to the disease. A good laugh reminds you that you are not your cancer.… I know that sometimes laughter seems impossible. After my cancer diagnosis I plunged into a bleak funk. And these days I’m struggling with a post-treatment depression that leaves my days swaddled in wearying grays. But no matter how remorseless the gloom, we humans tend to have our antennae for humor out. We’re the animal that wants to laugh, wants to unlock itself through a chuckle and a chortle. And laughter lets us cope, even in awkward moments.
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POPSNew Twist To Lockerbie Release The bomber was duly freed 23 days after the latest assessment. But today The Sunday Telegraph can disclose that the medical evidence was paid for by the Libyan government, which encouraged the doctors to say that Megrahi had only three months to live. British and Scottish officials appear to have thought that it would be easier to justify Megrahi’s release to the US government if it was done on compassionate grounds. Gordon Brown cannot be kicked to the curb soon enough. That the British and Scottish government could set this guy free on paid testimony from Libyan-funded hired guns is disgusting. Megrahi has been moved out of intensive care in Libya, incidentally. Want to bet this guy lives a long, long time past three months?
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POPSBoycott Scotch Whiskey What are your thoughts? Is this an over-reaction that will only hurt scotch whiskey sellers? Would a boycott actually change anything?
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POPSU.S. Cancer Care Is Number One Early Diagnosis. It is often claimed that people have better access to preventive screenings in universal health care systems. But despite the large number of uninsured, cancer patients in the United States are most likely to be screened regularly, and once diagnosed, have the fastest access to treatment. For example, a Commonwealth Fund report showed that women in the United States were more likely to get a PAP test for cervical cancer every two years than women in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Great Britain, where health insurance is guaranteed by the government. In the United States, 85 percent of women aged 25 to 64 years have regular PAP smears, compared with 58 percent in Great Britain. The same is true for mammograms; in the United States, 84 percent of women aged 50 to 64 years get them regularly " a higher percentage than in Australia, Canada or New Zealand, and far higher than the 63 percent of British women.
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POPSNew Jersey HIFU Famed prostate cancer specialist Dr. Sinaiko of Leading Edge Urology practices HIFU for the treatment of prostate cancer.
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