Cancer does not begin as a tumor. It begins at the cellular level.
According to Dr. Stephen Petteruti, cancer is a long, slow biological process that often unfolds over years or decades. This extended timeline creates an opportunity. Prevention is possible when attention is placed on cellular healt...
Prostate biopsy is one of the most commonly performed urological procedures in the United States, with approximately 1 million performed every year. Yet a growing body of clinical evidence and physician experience suggests that many of those biopsies may be unnecessary, premature, or ordered befor...
Recent research by the American Cancer Society shows that 1 in 8 men will be affected by prostate cancer in their lifetime. This is higher than you might think, particularly for a disease that often goes undetected.
The good news is that a rising PSA does not always mean something serious is happen...
Saw palmetto and nettle root are two of the more widely used supplements for men dealing with prostate enlargement and urinary flow difficulty. The questions worth asking are straightforward: do they actually work, how do they work, and what does the research support?
How Saw Palmetto Works — and W...
Hearing the words metastatic prostate cancer changes everything.
Fear rises. Urgency takes over. Decisions feel compressed.
And that’s exactly when mistakes happen.
According to Dr. Stephen Petteruti, once prostate cancer spreads, the conversation often shifts in the wrong direction. The focus mo...
An elevated PSA can feel like a trap.
One blood test turns into fear, pressure, and a fast-moving conveyor belt toward biopsy, surgery, or radiation. Many men are told there is no alternative. Act now or regret it later.
Dr. Stephen Petteruti believes that framing is wrong and dangerous.
In this ...
What Helps, What Hurts, and What’s Pure Noise
The supplement industry around prostate cancer is loud, confusing, and often misleading. Men are sold hope in a bottle, warned away from anything not “FDA approved,” and left unsure who to trust.
In this part 2 podcast, Dr. Stephen Petteruti cuts throu...
What Works, What’s Hype, and What Could Be Harmful
If you’ve been diagnosed with prostate cancer, or you’re living with a rising PSA, you’ve probably been told to take supplements. Lots of them.
But which ones help.
Which ones do nothing.
And which ones quietly work against you.
In this podcast, Dr...
The idea sounds appealing.
- Find the cancer.
- Target it.
- Destroy it.
- Avoid surgery. Avoid radiation. Move on with your life.
This promise is driving interest in focal therapies for prostate cancer. Procedures like TULSA and HIFU are marketed as modern, precise, and less harmful alternatives t...
Few topics in men’s health generate as much fear as testosterone therapy.
Men are routinely told the same thing:
“If you take testosterone, you’ll get prostate cancer.”
According to Dr. Stephen Petteruti, that belief is one of the most persistent and misleading myths in modern medicine.
In this po...
Focal therapy is one of the fastest-growing trends in prostate cancer treatment. Laser ablation. HIFU. Cryotherapy. TULSA. Each is marketed as a way to destroy cancer while preserving urinary and sexual function.
The promise sounds appealing. Treat only the cancer. Spare the rest of the gland. Avoi...
Most men are presented with prostate cancer as a narrow set of options.
Biopsy.
Surgery.
Radiation.
Hormone suppression.
According to Dr. Stephen Petteruti, that framing is incomplete—and often harmful.
In his new book Fight Cancer Like a Man, Dr. Petteruti lays out a fundamentally different approac...