DR. DAVE

~ “OK, Bloggins, we'll check out that ol’ prostate of your today.
“Abh,” gulps Bioggins, “how so, doc?”

~ and smile.”
The prostate check, the old finger wave, is as feared by men
_as.an IQ check at an NDP caucus meeting.
Today’s column is for men with prostates and the women
' who love them (the men). Prostate, an odd word, was always
tough for me to differentiate from prostRate as I could never re-
call which one, when ill; rendered you the other.
The prostate is a walnut-sized and shaped
gland that sits at the base of the bladder. It is not
much smarter than the average walnut, and
only slightly more active. It wakes up only for

_- | sex, otherwise it just lies there prostrate and
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thinks about.....well. ...probably not much more
than sex.
Rarely does it ponder politics, the Blue Jays -
_ or why it lives so close toa bladder. Allit thinks
about is sex as this i in fact is its sole purpose for
living.
The prostate is the Arnold Schwartznegger
of the male reproductive system. After 45
years or so of thinking about sex and doing
steroids (testosterone), the prostate gets
bulked: up pretty good: It gets mean and
pumped and, as it enlarges, begins to strangle:
the outlet pipe of the bladder (the urethra). :
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Wednesday, May 27, 1998

oo. Unmasking myths about the prostate

morhoids.
“You will stand and declare, “Nope, J got Benign Prostatic Hy-
pertrophy.” putting the emphasis on BENIGN. This is NOT can-

cer,’

How can you tell if you are one of the 20 per cent of men over

‘age 50 with this condition.

1. First you must be male, women (East Gérinan hammer
throwers included) do not have prostates and seldom get
prostate problems:
. 2. Frequency — going all the time, especially
at night when you may be up five or six times.
~ 3. Difficulty. stopping and starting — having
- rushed out of bed with that urge to void, you
stand and stand and stand and can usually whis-
tle the entire sound track of Oklahoma before
anything actually works. Once started, you may
only dribble, and then just as you think you're
done......whoops......you’re polishing off Phan-
tom of The Opera before you finally zipup.
A. Yer yerinary stream weakens. No longer
are you able to write your name in the snow
(braggarts could also do their middle name —
and add a nickname at the end). With BPH
you'd be lucky to dot the “Ps and cross the
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“Be Incontinence - occurs even in Antarc-

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: Now, how to fix it. Up to recently, the only :
eae way to remedy BPH was by a roto-rooter pro-

cedure called a TURP in which bits and pieces of the elanda are

chopped out through the urethra. .

Though it is the second most common operation in men over”

. ‘age 65, it is not without its problems. More recently, two drugs.
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go.’And: now a new procedure is available i in which a-small an-
nnais passed into the urethra and microwaves are pulsed in:
hat burn the prostate.
Though, thisi is pr oceduré is expensive ($2500), there are side -

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