09-12-03 Dr. Fagin on Healthvue

Newscaster: In Health Vue today, did you know that September is prostate health awareness month in Texas.

Newscaster: And prostate cancer strikes one in every six men older than 50, but now a doctor here in Austin is providing a new, less painful way to treat this very common condition. But you have a warning though. Some of the purposes of the medical procedure are gothic. Fifty-nine-year old Gary Wilfry is sitting there at home relaxing, just three days after undergoing surgery for prostate cancer.

Gary Wilfry: There is uhm, there is certainly no pain. It was very easy uhm procedure, and he is the doctor.

Newscaster: OK, his case is typical. He had no symptoms. He had a blood test and thanks to specific prostate antigen led to the cancer diet milk food.

Dr. Randy Fagin: The prostate gland sits right here.

Newscaster: But thanks to Dr. Randy Fagin. Prostate cancer patients can also now have another treatment option besides radiation and traditional surgery. Dr. Fagin is one of the three urologists in Texas trying to perform prostate laparoscopic surgery. It involves studying several small openings in a patients abdomen and then 13 cameras that magnify the area. This allows doctors to probe and freeze cancerous cells. The benefits to patients are many.

Dr. Randy Fagin: Slowly we try to get an opening for although we are trying to get your activity quick at this stage in the hospital less pain, less blood loss. There are tremendous (xx 1:28) tremendous advantages.

Newscaster: Without laparoscopic surgery, Wilfry would likely still be in the hospital still under heavy pain medications and still months away from enjoying retirement with his wife Nancy.

Gary Wilfry: Thank you. The new procedure of Dr. Fagin has earned a very yieldy, very quick, very quick recovery period and I guess about this stage has been good. So no pain.

Newscaster: A hundred and eighty-nine thousand stages of prostate cancer diagnosed in men annually. More than thirty thousand die from the disease every year. For more information on this procedure and to find out more about prostate health awareness month, log onto kvue.com and check onto the weekly news later.

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