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 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 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 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 2, 2007 | breast cancer, cancer, insurance, life insurance, prostate cancer
Early stage in situ breast cancer has always been the easiest to underwrite for life insurance, although most companies still levy an extra charge for 1-3 years after completion of treatment. Now one company has separated from the pack and has taken a bold stance,...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 31, 2007 | cancer, heart disease, high blood pressure, insurance, life insurance, obesity, prostate cancer
Well, let’s just roll two of my top topics into one blog and see if we can bring a little common sense to bear on the causes of cancer. If a poll was taken and people were asked to name the leading causes of heart disease and cancer, I suspect (because it would...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 29, 2007 | breast cancer, cancer, insurance, life insurance, prostate cancer
I hope in previous posts I have made it abundantly clear that smoking cigarettes and looking for low life insurance rates is an oxymoronic walk in which you can’t get there from here. I have also gone on a bit about the reasons that life insurance underwriters...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 28, 2007 | diabetes, heart attack, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, prostate cancer
Mitral valve prolapse sounds a little ominous, and to see the knee jerk reaction some life insurance companies have when they underwrite it, you would swear it was right up there with heart attacks. Not so. Mitral valve prolapse is simply a slight thickening in one of...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 26, 2007 | cancer, insurance, life insurance, prostate cancer
In an article on our soon to be “released” prostate cancer website I review all of the treatment options available. For elderly men, those between 65 and 80, with low to medium grade prostate cancer, “watchful waiting” is often considered to be...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 23, 2007 | breast cancer, cancer, insurance, life insurance, prostate cancer
I have mentioned before that if we all knew the date and time and perhaps the reason for our death, well ahead of time, it might change the need for life insurance dramatically. With time to plan it is possible to put money somewhere other than life insurance and...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 21, 2007 | cancer, heart disease, insurance, life insurance, prostate cancer
I am always surprised by the number of cigarette smokers who inquire about life insurance and when they find out what the cost is, they suddenly lose all interest. The difference in cost is likely no where near what they are spending on the habit, but they...
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