He went to a urologist, who ruled out any bladder or urinary tract problems.
"I have never seen anything like this, " said Goldstein, a urologist for the last 30 years.
Emanuel Friedman, a Boston urologist, says he performs double the number of vasectomies before big football weekends.
Gold, a urologist, became chief executive of Dendreon in January 2003 when he was in his early 30s.
Sixty-three years ago University of Chicago urologist Charles Huggins proved you could treat prostate cancer in dogs by castrating them.
The robot "has leveled the playing field, " says Duke University urologist David Albala, who has done many robot-assisted prostate removals.
My urologist at the time recommended the traditional route of a prostatectomy, a procedure fraught with negatives, including incontinence and impotence.
"Women are complicated, multifaceted and difficult to evaluate, " says Jennifer Berman, a urologist at UCLA and director of its Female Sexual Medicine Center.
"It has been hyped by the instrument makers, " says Johns Hopkins University urologist Patrick Walsh, renowned for inventing a nerve-sparing prostatectomy procedure that preserves sexual function.
While technology helped me to live a longer and more productive life, I'd be remiss in not recognizing the outstanding skills of Doctor Michael Esposito, my urologist.
But Tom Kolon, MD Urologist at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia points out there can be a problem with leaving it until the child has grown up.
"It gives people something to look forward to, " says Dallas urologist Richard Bevan-Thomas, who says he sees an increase in vasectomy bookings for all major golf tournaments.
One of the biggest things to be aware of is that most men never stop testosterone replacement therapy, says Dr. Gregory Broderick, a urologist with the Mayo Clinic.
The doctor had trouble with the clamp in the procedure, and, at 3 months old, her son had to have surgery by a urologist in order to be re-circumcised.
He was treated by consultant urologist Mr Nicholas Harvey-Hills.
When he finally saw an urologist, tests were ordered.
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The robot, first approved in 2000 for gallbladder and heartburn surgery, started catching on for prostate surgery in 2002 after urologist Mani Menon at Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital reported that it was a far easier way to learn the new technique.
Urologists in larger group practices that have in-house pathologists may be more aggressive in testing because they seek to catch cancer earlier, said Steven Schlossberg, a Yale urologist who heads a health-policy panel for the American Urological Association and wasn't involved in the research.
Mr Chinegwundoh, who is a consultant urologist at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London, one of the hospitals taking part in the study, said he and other consultants had long noticed how over-represented black prostate cancer patients were compared to their numbers in the general population.
That leads to thousands upon thousands of unnecessary biopsies every year. (The test is guilty of false negatives, too: PSA fails to spot cancer 15% of the time.) Moreover, up to 75% of prostate tumors being detected now by PSA are too small to be an immediate threat, asserts Stanford University urologist Thomas Stamey.
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