Surviving Prostate Cancer
In this video, Phranq Tamburri spends about 24 minutes speaking on "Surviving Prostate Cancer" at the 41st Annual Cancer Convention held on Labor Day weekend by the Cancer Control Society.
About Phranq Tamburri
PHRANQ TAMBURRI, N.MD graduated with honors from Penn State, graduate work from Temple, and later a second degree from Kansai Gaidai University in Japan. He paused academics to join a working Zen Buddhist monastery outside Hiroshima, Japan where he studied, and lived an alternative medical philosophy. Back in America he studied Austrian / Keynesian economic models as adjunct training to preparing himself and his future patients in the ‘business of medicine’. Later he worked for Merck Pharmaceuticals to help prepare Phase 4 clinical trials for FDA approval. Prior to medical school Dr. Tamburri became a surgical team leader for hospital organ and tissue transplant retrievals.
Ultimately, due to a desire to provide low invasive medical options and choices, Dr. Tamburri chose to become a Naturopathic Physician. He graduated from the nationally accredited Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine in Tempe Arizona where he later was selected resident, then Chief Resident, where he created the Men’s Health Clinic for screening low income populations. Later he became the first Naturopath to conduct residency rounds with Mayo Clinic trained urologists under renowned Dr. Bernard Gburek, MD.
Dr. Tamburri has served as Professor of Clinical Urology at his Alma Mater for 12 years. He served as a Board member to the Arizona Naturopathic Medical Association, the Southwest Prostate Cancer Association (screening programs), Governor’s Council for Spinal Cord and Head Injuries, and founding member of the International Naturopathic Clinical Research Institute. He has received numerous awards including the peer selected Top Doc designee for Phoenix Magazine. Amongst Dr. Tamburri’s numerous authorships, including as senior contributor to the annual men’s health issue of the respected Naturopathic Doctor News & Review, his most professional achievement was as chosen chapter contributor (Urology) to the definitive nationwide profession endorsed textbook, Naturopathic Foundations.
Currently Dr. Tamburri is the medical director for Prostate Second Opinions (PSO). With 3 locations and international patient clientele, PSO provides the definitive advanced consultation for men navigating their prostate medical options amongst the natural, the conventional, and the ethical.
Dr. Tamburri can be reached at Prostate Second Opinions at either of his offices (Phoenix, Scottsdale, Seattle) by contacting his triage office @ 480-231-4203 or simply ‘Google’ him with any of our location cities.
Transcription
Thank you, always a pleasure to have been invited here. First time I actually this is, by the way, a famous and being apropos that we're talking about, men are from Mars with prostates. I thought it was a good backdrop to get started. Now, as we go forward, I won't explain a little bit about mice before I can talk about myself for a moment. I just want to point out what I do is I focus on assessments for men. Many of you in this audience have heard this issue of prostate cancer. And does it really kill you or not? I'm sure you've all heard on prostate cancer. Is the cancer to get and most men outlive it. And the PSA is not reliable. And that's exhaustion is. Do you have a poodle or a pitbull? And that ultimately seems to me be the driving's source or the factor of do you focus in alternative medicines more or should you throw in the towel for conventional? Now, I'm not here to push one way or the other. Again, I'm very integrative. I'll explain that in a moment. But there is there are many men that I see. So maybe in this audience who, when they say they're natural, they mean it, meaning they're going to go to the wire, they'd run the bell curve is my background. Real quick. I know now down here to hear my bio. But since I'm a new speaker here and I might say a few things, a bit controversial, perhaps I'll just say upfront, I have no friends because the conventional doctors think I'm a quack and sometimes alternative doctors think that I'm too conventional, so I roll with it. But my background's a little bit of both. I used to drive ambulances. I was a paramedic years ago. Then I worked at Merck Pharmaceuticals doing drug testing for the FDA and I learned how the drug companies work. And then following that, I wound up being a head of a gang. I'm just saying, just for the Skoch, you understand my background. I was the first naturopath to do rounds with Mayo surgeons at the Mayo section in Arizona, where I'm from Phenix. So I tell my medical students that many people call us alternative doctors, although I consider myself more integrative. But I say if we're alternative doctors, it's important for you to know what you're the alternative to. All right. It's because otherwise you have this dichotomy, it's like, you know, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Moore and these two different worlds. And I think it's important you understand how the other side thinks to a problem. So when a