| Post-Prostatectomy Rehabilitation Improves Men's Natural Sexual ...
This year doctors will diagnose nearly 219,000 men with prostate cancer. Many will undergo radical prostatectomy surgery. While radical prostatectomy provides an excellent cure, impotence (erectile dysfunction) is a common side effect. However early, postoperative penile rehabilitation can speed prostatectomy patients' healing, achieve natural erectile function and improve their quality of life.Studies show that even 24 months after prostate cancer treatment sexual dysfunction was the most important quality of life issue. "Increasingly doctors are finding quality of life issues important in the overall treatment of any disease, including erectile dysfunction," said Dr. Skip Freedman, executive medical director for AllMed Healthcare Management.Treating erectile dysfunction has changed over the last several years, and can offer men a confusing number of treatment choices.
Critics of homosexuality should see words' effect
Critics of homosexuality cause suffering in at least two ways.First, they produce guilt, shame and fear in the lives of innocent adolescents who find themselves oriented toward persons of the same gender. This can be so severe as to convince the youngster that the life is just impossible.The second kind of suffering arises when hoodlums ``punish'' homosexuals by committing sexual assault or other forms of battery. The more the ``sin'' of homosexuality is emphasized, the easier it is for the perpetrators to commit such acts.Granted, the authors of the opinions in the Pantagraph do not wish for such things to take place but nevertheless they do occur.This ``gay-bashing'' may be statistically rare by some stretch of the imagination, but it certainly was not rare when it happened to me.Critics should remember the words of Jesus Christ as they are reported in the Holy Bible: ``Judge not, lest you be judged'' and ``Let he who is without guilt cast the first stone.''Gene NadenOak ParkThe writer is a former resident of Bloomington.
Cancer Society provides transport for port surgery
Ports bring to mind exotic places, as in ports of call. However, there are other ports most people don't visit. Placed just under the skin below the collar bone, they are the delivery system of choice for many chemotherapy drugs. Patients with ports no longer need to have talented phlebotomists hope they hit veins on a first stick. At my last visit, my oncologist decided he wanted me to change to a new chemo, one that would require a port. I figured I'd meander in to surgery whenever Dr. David J. Winchester, my surgeon had a break in his schedule. Instead, I got a real wake-up call when his nurse Audrey called early in the morning and asked, "Have you eaten anything?" Re-assured that I had only taken a few sips of my morning kefir, her query was followed by, "Don't eat! He's going to try to fit you in later this afternoon." I was delighted, but then asked her if I could drive home.
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