Prostatitis Has No Celebrity Spokesperson
April 27 2005 The March 28 2005 issue of People Magazine profiled celebrity couple Emme the plussize model and her husband Phil Aronson Aronson was said to be suffering from prostatitis with his pain being an 8 on a scale of 1 to 10
The article inadvertently points out a glaring omission in the celebrity medical world No celebrity speaks out about prostatitis like Elizabeth Taylor speaks for AIDS or Mary Tyler Moore speaks for diabetes
The Prostatitis Foundation is still seeking a celebrity spokesperson Their web site wwwProstatitisorg gets nearly a million visits per year by men and women seeking answers Questions remain about how to treat prostatitis
Since the 1970s physicians in Manila Philippines have been treating prostatitis with repetitive prostatic massage and antibiotic therapy
Our research shows that prostatitis is often an infection and obstruction of the prostate says Dr Antonio Espinosa Feliciano Jr MD who has published 4 papers on prostatitis in the peerreviewed medical literature and has several more in the works We use repetitive prostatic massage to drain the prostate of pus and infection not just antibiotics alone as seems to be done in most other countries
In the largest study to date of repetitive prostatic massage combined with antibiotics Shoskes and Zeitlin 40 percent of the patients underwent a complete remission of symptoms
Prostatitis is inflammation or swelling of the prostate However prostate enlargement also called benign prostatic hyperplasia or BPH affects millions of men as well
One of the biggest things we do differently says Dr Feliciano is that we test all men with benign prostatic hyperplasia for prostatitis and we usually find inflammation under the microscope This leads to treatment with repetitive prostatic massage and antimicrobial therapy
Some doctors suspect that prostatitis may be a precursor to
prostate cancer Bradley Hennenfent MD author of the new book Surviving Prostate Cancer Without Surgery Roseville Books 2005 writes about the possible connection in a chapter entitled What Causes Prostate Cancer
A study needs to be done to see if keeping men's prostates clean of prostatitis pus and infection by repetitive prostatic massage and antibiotics can prevent
prostate cancer says Dr Hennenfent
Bradley Hennenfent MD has seen five uncles suffer from
prostate cancer His book includes many uplifting stories about less harmful treatments than surgery Dr Hennenfent founded wwwSurvivingProstateCancerWithoutSurgeryorg the Epididymitis Foundation wwwEpididymitisFoundationorg and the Acoustic Neuroma Foundation wwwAcousticNeuromaFoundationorg
Surviving Prostate Cancer Without Surgery is published by Roseville Books and can be found in fine bookstores everywhere Biblio Distribution 8004626420 and Roseville BooksRayve Productions 8884922665 distribute the book which retails for $1995 as a trade paperback has 334 pages 34 chapters ISBN Number 0971745412 and was published January 15 2005 Twentyseven illustrations and cartoons are included within the book which also includes an extensive index
Prostatitis Has No Celebrity Spokesperson
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