by Ed Hinerman | Dec 7, 2007 | cancer, insurance, life insurance
I shared some time ago that my dad had been diagnosed with bladder cancer. By the time they determined what was going on it was a grade 4, stage 3 cancer and had soon penetrated the bladder wall and moved elsewhere in his body. It was, from a oncologist’s point...
by Ed Hinerman | Dec 6, 2007 | cancer, insurance, life insurance, prostate cancer, PSA
With localized prostate cancer the treatments of choice have generally been radioactive beam, radiactive seed or prostatectomy. All are very effective in stopping a low stage cancer. Effectiveness comes with side effects though. Incontinence and impotency are the most...
by Ed Hinerman | Dec 3, 2007 | cancer, insurance, life insurance, prostate cancer, PSA
PSA (Prostate Specific Antigen) tests have long been the standard test for determining BPH (enlarged prostate), Prostatitis (infection of the prostate) and prostate cancer. There are two events that are watched for. The event that far too many people experience is...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 30, 2007 | breast cancer, cancer, insurance, life insurance
New technology called stereoscopic digital mammography is proving to be dramatically more accurate than standard digital mammography. Initial testing has shown a decrease in false positive findings of almost 50% with the new technology and it reduced the incidence of...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 30, 2007 | cancer, diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, insurance, life insurance, obesity
I bet you thought you would never see the day when I had good news to report on obesity in America. Having harped on how America’s obesity has steadily increased for the last 25 years, how it is changing the health and lives of the country through diabetes,...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 29, 2007 | cancer, diabetes, life insurance, obesity, prostate cancer
It is a statistical fact, and certainly no secret, that African American men continue to take more of a beating from prostate cancer than men from any other ethnic background in this country. They are more likely to get prostate cancer. They are less likely to detect...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 28, 2007 | cancer, insurance, life insurance, prostate cancer, PSA
The Prostate Cancer Foundation has an annual scientific retreat where the top research scientists get together and review and summarize the major breakthroughs of the year. The Foundation provided a summary this week that, thank you, offered the summaries in language...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 27, 2007 | breast cancer, cancer, insurance, life insurance, prostate cancer
Being a longtime small town dweller, it is my personal belief that just driving through a large city can be dangerous to your health. There is the obvious risk that goes with driving along with a bazillion other cars, but just the stress and anxiety that goes with...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 21, 2007 | cancer, insurance, life insurance, obesity, prostate cancer, PSA
No need to cringe. I’m not about to go on another tear about obesity……but I did run across a rather interesting phenomenom in an article today. The premise is that PSA readings in obese men can be falsely lower because they have a larger volume of...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 19, 2007 | cancer, insurance, life insurance
Life insurance underwriters have a tough job, determining mortality risk based on all the different health factors, assigning rates that are fair to the customer and the company. But sometimes they don’t want to deal with something, so they jumble it up and...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 17, 2007 | cancer, insurance, life insurance, prostate cancer
Family history is one of those life insurance questions that kind of gets people on the defensive. Generally the contention revolves around the fact that the younger person claims that they live an entirely different lifestyle and therefore, whatever happened to their...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 17, 2007 | cancer, insurance, life insurance, prostate cancer, PSA
In all the study and writing we’ve done on the subject of prostate cancer, we’ve uncovered some interesting little tidbits. In an article I cited in a recent post they claimed that 30% of men in their 30’s had prostate cancer at some level. Another...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 12, 2007 | cancer, insurance, life insurance, melanoma
Melanoma, the deadliest of the skin cancers, has been at the fore front of treatment innovation for some time. Scientists have long believed that, given a way to rev up a person’s natural immune system, melanoma could successfully be fought off without more...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 7, 2007 | cancer, insurance, life insurance, prostate cancer, PSA
The very thought of a needle biopsy of the prostate kind of makes me cringe, but if there’s a chance a person has cancer, you kind of want to know for sure. The thing that has always struck me about the needle biopsy method is that the size of the samples are...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 6, 2007 | breast cancer, cancer, insurance, life insurance
Mammograms have been around since the 1920’s and have saved countless lives through early detection of breast cancer. For that we should all be thankful. But, like most medical exams, you just don’t hear many women come away saying that they should do...
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