SILLY SONGS and SATIRE: o) Patient's Uke-Song: "PROSTATE CANCER"

Sunday, 19 September 2021

o) Patient's Uke-Song: "PROSTATE CANCER"

PARODY-LYRICS
ORIGINAL SONG: "Love and Marriage", 1955, Cahn and van Heusen, performed by Frank Sinatra, also Peggy Lee and Dinah Shore.

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, January 2016.

To return to the corresponding post on "Daily Illustrated Nonsense", for some further recommendations about this disease (and to see the lyrics without the chord-chart indications) click HERE.

Humor is likely still the best medicine, even for retired physicians.

PROSTATE CANCER

(to the tune of “Love and Marriage”)

indentations at beginnings of lines flag the syncopation.

Readers are advised to inform themselves to the extent possible, and

then discuss the many issues involved with their health provider. Excellent online material is available at the American Cancer Society website.

[1] cancer 'in place', which has not invaded locally or spread beyond the prostate gland.

[2] Prostate-Specific Antigen; a protein which leaks into the blood at a rate proportional to the activity of prostate cells; frequently used to help detect and monitor cancer.

[3] Digital Rectal Examination by your urologist, or other doctor - not pleasant, but important.

[4] a measure of the abnormality in cell-type on either biopsy or surgical specimens, on a 10-point scale, based on the 2 most abnormal patterns found within the gland.

[5] at this stage, treatment is usually recommended to eliminate all prostate tissue. Surgery is the more common choice, but various forms of radiation (external beam or implantation of radioactive beads) have also been used.

[6] recently, high-tech variants (laparoscopic and robotic surgery) have been developed, but their additional benefit is incompletely proven.