{"id":36374,"date":"2025-05-29T18:04:29","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T22:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=36374"},"modified":"2025-05-29T18:04:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T22:04:32","slug":"urologist-provides-key-advice-on-mens-health-at-local-fashion-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/urologist-provides-key-advice-on-mens-health-at-local-fashion-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Urologist provides key advice on Men\u2019s Health at local fashion show"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Men aren\u2019t always the best advocates when it comes to their own physical and mental health, but Dr. Jerome Green, a urology surgeon at Southlake Health, tried to turn the tide last week as a keynote speaker at Fashion Through the Ages, a local fashion show hosted by Omars Shoes to benefit men\u2019s health programs at the local hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It can even be as simple as going home to \u201ccheck your nuts,\u201d said Dr. Green, in his humour-laced speech before a packed crowd at the Royal Venetian Mansion on May 20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI play hockey, and it\u2019s funny, as you go through the years, when you\u2019re in the locker room in your 20s, you\u2019re talking about different things \u2013 we won\u2019t mention that \u2013 and then in your 30s, you start talking about your vasectomies. In your 50s, you start talking about your prostate,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prostate cancer, he said, was a particularly important topic because PSA \u2013 prostate-specific antigen \u2013 tests aren\u2019t part of regular screenings and it often won\u2019t be part of the conversation when considering health options.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMost family physicians and nurse practitioners will forego that talk because they\u2019re told just to tell patients not to do it, but you have to stand up once you\u2019re 50, or, if you have a family history, starting in your 40s, and ask for the test,\u201d he said. \u201cOne in eight men in Canada will be diagnosed with prostate cancer\u2026 It\u2019s a common condition, but not a common killer. There is good treatment out there, so it is not a death sentence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere’s a lot of men out there that we do nothing for, we just watch them carefully, and the majority of those men can never be treated. And then there’s others you have to be aggressive for, and some of them, unfortunately, will develop that same disease. The key to doing the testing is to get them earlier, and then you can decide\u2026what route to go on.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The subject of prostate cancer was extra timely, he added, due to the recent diagnosis of former U.S. President Joe Biden with an aggressive form of prostate cancer that has since metastasized to his bones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPSA tests [are] not the be-all and the end-all. Most men that I see who’ve been diagnosed with prostate cancer, they say, \u2018Well, I feel perfectly fine.\u2019 You’re not going to have symptoms, and that’s the problem. If you don’t order the test, we don’t know what’s going on\u2026. The other thing is the MRI. Now more and more men are getting MRIs even before they’re getting a biopsy, and some of the guidelines do recommend that. Thankfully, at Southlake, we have a new MRI machine that’s up and coming, and it’ll be running very shortly. It’ll allow more men to have MRIs screened at our site \u2013 leading edge, close to their home, that’s our motto \u2013 without having to send them elsewhere\u2026. One of the reasons that we’re here today is to help fundraise for men\u2019s health, and one of them is to help us purchase an MRI fusion software biopsy system.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A diagnosis, he stressed, did not always mean treatment was necessary as \u201cthere\u2019s no two patients in the world who have the exact same cancer\u201d and various factors need to be taken into consideration before treatment is considered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn September, we’re starting a multidisciplinary clinic. It’s about time; I’ve been pushing this for a while. We’re sitting down with the oncologists, and we’re going to run these prostate cancer clinics, so it’s like a one-stop shopping thing, and I think that’s very important,\u201d he continued, noting that there are new tests coming out of the United Kingdom that involve a blood test or a mouth swab. \u201cWe\u2019re hopeful that we’re not having to be as aggressive with our treatments down the road. But again, a lot of this has to do with early screening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou have to be growing advocates for your loved ones \u2013 brothers, fathers, sons, and so forth. For prostate cancer prevention, we recommend Vitamin D. That’s the only supplement we recommend. All that other stuff, you can throw it out to waste. Vitamin D is important. It prevents certain cancers, including colon cancer, prostate cancer, breast cancer. It’s good for prevention of dementia \u2013 you\u2019ve just got to remember to take the Vitamin D! \u2013 and it’s good for your overall health. Everyone is vitamin D deficient. Even if you looked at Arizona and Florida, they’re showing everyone’s vitamin D deficient, so much so that the government doesn’t pay for testing of it, because we know everyone’s going to be low.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He further recommended exercise, an avoidance of red meat and an abundance of dairy products \u2013 \u201cYou can have cheese on your pizza, but don\u2019t be guzzling gallons and gallons of milk!\u201d \u2013 and adding Omega 3s (such as those found in fish and flaxseed), green tea, and lycopene from watermelon and cooked tomatoes into your diet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Brock Weir<\/strong><\/p>\n\r\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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