Archive > November 2008

Penile Rehabilitation and Impotency Videos

» 25 November 2008 » In ED, Erectile dysfunction, Impotence, intimacy, Penile rehab, Prostate Cancer, QOL, Surgery » Comments Off

Chicago urologist Gerald Chodak MD has launched an innovative doctor-to-patient series of videos. “This is an evidence-based site,” Dr. Chodak says, “aimed at providing free information in an easier format than the usual sites that require reading. Over 60 videos are now completed on every aspect of this disease.”

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Clinical Sexologist and Therapist Joins Krongrad Institute

» 24 November 2008 » In ED, Erectile dysfunction, intimacy, PCa Treatments, Penile rehab, Prostate Cancer, QOL, Side Effects » Comments Off

Rhonda Fine PhD

Rhonda Fine
PhD ARNP

Many factors can adversely affect sexual performance. Physical disability illness, obesity, medications, aging, stress, grief, emotional distress and relationship conflicts may all at times contribute to sexual dysfunction.

Prostate cancer diagnosis and treatment may also contribute to sexual dysfunction. To help men and their partners cope with and manage sexual dysfunction, the Krongrad Institute has brought in Rhonda Fine, PhD, ARNP. Dr. Fine will head up the Institute’s efforts to support men and their sexual partners after prostate cancer diagnosis and treatment.

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Prostate Cancer and Masculinity

» 23 November 2008 » In Advocacy, PCa Treatments, Prostate Cancer, QOL, Side Effects » Comments Off

Charles "Chuck" Maack

Charles "Chuck" Maack

BY CHARLES (CHUCK) MAACK – Prostate Cancer Advocate

In opening: The capability to have an erection does not define what constitutes the title “Man.”

I’ve become exasperated reading of men claiming they are less a man because they are unable to get an erection or have lost libido/potency. “I’m less a man,” “I’m a eunuch,” “I’m a girly-man.”

Where in God’s name have such ridiculous thoughts come from? This, in my mind, is the perfect example of some men’s brains being enclosed within their penis rather than in their head.

I can agree that loss of capability for erection plus loss of libido are blows that strike at key capabilities associated with being a male.

But I am absolutely no less a man than I was through all the decades of my life before discovery of the prostate cancer made it necessary for me to take medical treatments that resulted in my loss of libido/potency/erection.

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