HEALTH &
FITNESS

THE SPIRIT OF A PIONEER.

Walk. Run. Bend.Turn. Most of us
don't think about simple mobility and flexibility until our later years.

But when joint and bone pain are a part of everyday life--suddenly,

these simple movements become nearly impossible.

Prostate
Cancer
Treatment
Sped Up

Our experts are among the first in the country to use sophisticated
procedures like the Birmingham Hip TM resurfacing and iUni'm knee

resurfacing. Cutting edge techniques developed to get our patients
to walk, run, bend, turn...and live life

to its fullest again.

Study seeks
patients for course
that severely trims
radiation time.

At Huron Valley-Sinai Hospital,

caring is critical.

A

prostate cancer

diagnosis is never
welcome, but in

March it carried a
double-punch for David Kirby of
Waterford Township. He and his

family had plans to visit Disney
World in Florida in April, with
airline tickets and hotel reserva-
tions already paid for.

CARE IS CRITICAL.

"I wanted to see all five of my
grandchildren at Disney World

PIONEERING
ADVANCES IN
ORTHOPAEDIC
SURGERY

along with their moms and dads,"
he says.

Prostate cancer is typically
treated with nine weeks of radia-

tion. But Kirby, 63, was in for a bit
of luck.

He was referred to Dr. Jeffrey
Forman, a radiation oncologist

with 21st Century Oncology in
Farmington Hills, who is recruit-

ing men with early-stage prostate
cancer for a research study on

reducing radiation treatment time
from nine weeks to 1'/2 weeks.

The full course can be accelerated

because individual radiation doses
are higher than the doses in the
longer course.

"I said, 'You know, that's exactly

what I'm looking for,"' Kirby says.
His PSA (prostate-specific
antigen) dropped from 7.7 before
treatment to 0.9 afterward and his

prostate is "100 percent" normal in
size, he says.

Forman, the area's principal

investigator for this research study,
says: "I don't think we could have
asked for a better result."

THE EXPERTISE OF THE DETROIT MEDICAL CENTER
IN OAKLAND COUNTY.

He wants to enroll up to 30 men
in the multi-institution study.

Medical professionals are able to
increase the dose because of the
exquisite precision of new technol-

ogy used to deliver the radiation
therapy, teamed with the guidance
of the Global Positioning System
to pinpoint the prostate's exact

For a physician referral call 888-DMC-2500

www.hvsh.org I 248-937-3300

1 William Carts Drive, Commerce, Michigan

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Huron Valley Sinai
Hospital

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location. Combined, they help to
restrict the radiation to the prostate

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July 29 • 2010