Prostatitis, Prostate Cancer, PSA
In this video, Ronald Wheeler spends about 31 minutes speaking on "Prostatitis, Prostate Cancer, PSA" at the 31st Annual Cancer Convention held on Labor Day weekend by the Cancer Control Society.
About Ronald Wheeler
RONALD WHEELER, M.D., UROLOGIST AND PATIENT ADVOCATE, is the Medical Director of the Prostatitis and Prostate Cancer Center in Sarasota, Florida. A health care practitioner in his 17th year, Dr. Wheeler graduated from the Autonomous University of Guadalajara in 1979. He completed his Urologic Surgical Residency training at Louisiana State University Medical School, New Orleans in 1985.
During a brilliant surgical career, Dr. Wheeler realized that attempting to cure prostate cancer through “traditional surgical and radiology techniques” often had little impact on the progression of the disease and/or survival of the patient.
Dr. Wheeler is a patient advocate and serves on the Advisory Board of numerous health-related organizations. A runner-up for the prestigious “Educator of the Year” Award, he has spoken at the National Institute of Health (NIH) on multiple occasions. He holds two patents related to prostate disease diagnosis and prostatitis resolution.
Dr. Wheeler has authored numerous articles and has been the principal investigator in various clinical trials. His passionate style and concern for his fellow man has allowed him to embrace the least invasive, least traumatic, yet equally effective form of disease suppression and/or stabilization. Chronic Disease Management (CDM) is a unique prostate cancer protocol that highlights proper diet, appropriate nutrition, adequate exercise, stress management, and enhanced education while preserving quality of life issues. His integrated approach allows for outcome validation based on recognized, reproducible biologic markers.
Dr. Wheeler is currently spearheading awareness for prostate disease through the “Drive for Prostate Health.” He believes that education will allow patients more viable treatment options with early diagnosis including living with the disease.
Dr. Wheeler may be contacted by phone at 877-766-8400, by websites www.theprostatecenter.com and www.peenuts.com and by e-mail [email protected]@aol.com
Transcription
IPt's nice to have you here today to chat with about this disease. rostate disease is really a multi focal process. All diseases of the prostate are interrelated. The topic of my talk today is prostatitis is a cause of prostate cancer. And why your PSA must be less than one pointer.
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So at any rate, where we need to do is we need to integrate these various diseases associated with prostate.
And then talk about the signs and symptoms as well. And I'm going to give you a few pointers here today as we go. The number one health risk to prostate. Excuse me, number one, health risk to men is prostate disease. And prostate disease is divided into three categories. Basically prostatitis, BPH and prostate cancer. Non bacterial prostatitis is associated with 95 percent of all cases.
So therefore, in this audience here, if you're told to prostatitis, you should think that antibiotics are not what you want to take. Despite that fact, and this is well-known information from the NIH. Most doctors prescribe antibiotics for suspicion of prostatitis. That is plain and simple. Wrong.
BPH is benign prostatic hyperplasia and obviously prostate cancer is spoken, as you can see it here. As we continue to go, obviously this is an important topic because 30000 men will die in 2003, second degree to this disease with almost two hundred thousand new cases of prostate cancer being diagnosed. The there are multiple factors associated with the evolution of prostate cancer. These are some of those and some of the more important factors that we have seen, environmental, genetic, cellular, oxidative changes. Obviously, there is a rule of diet.
There's a role for angiogenesis, the immune system, nutrition, and also cross to type. This is a disease entity.
As we talk about all of these diseases, we must understand diseases of the prostate in regard to symptoms. As you can see, the waterline here is the symptom line. So when you look at that, everything above the waterline is what you can experience.
Everything below the waterline. You have no clue about. So there's three markers basically that we're going to concentrate on today in this talk. One is voiding symptoms to his EPA. And the third is PSA. EPF has expressed Prestatyn secretion. It's a test that every male in this room, if you have suspicion of any disease regarding your prostate, you must get that test. Despite this test being the diagnostic test for prostatitis, fewer than 20 percent of all urologists in the rare family physician performs this test. EPMD, again as the diagnostic test. It's 50 years old. So you would think that in 50