Fall 2016

By Bradley Prestidge, MD, MS Regional Medical Director for Radiation Oncology Bon Secours Cancer Institute in Hampton Roads   Men facing the diagnosis of prostate cancer have both surgical and non-surgical treatment options, depending on their stage of disease.  If the cancer is believed not to have spread outside the prostate, they can undergo radical prostatectomy, … [Read more...] about Non-Surgical Options for Men with Prostate Cancer

The lungs, wrote the second century Greek physician and philosopher Galen, had “all the properties which make for easy evacuation; for it is very soft and warm and is kept in constant motion.”  He also assumed that arteries carried the purest blood to higher organs such as the brain and lungs from the left ventricle of the heart, while veins carried blood to the lesser organs … [Read more...] about Every Breath You Take… the somewhat dangerous evolution of pulmonary medicine