As we get ready for next weeks' American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting, I thought advanced prostate cancer patients would find it helpful to see this thirty minute review from last years meeting. Click >>> https://www.patientpower.info/video/asco-advanced-prostate-cancer-roundtable-discussion http://malecare.org/the-development-of-a-novel-blood-biomarker-for-detecting-ar-v7-and-resistance-to-zytiga-and-xtandi/
Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) is a first line treatment for men when prostate cancer has spread beyond the prostate. Men die from prostate cancer after their disease becomes castration resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). Anti-androgen treatments such as Enzalutamide (Xtandi) have lengthened the life of thousands of advanced prostate cancer men around the world. Ultimately, even [...]
You may live longer if you feel good about life while taking radium-223 (Xofigo). Dr Neal Shore from the Carolina Urologic Research Center studied how health related quality of life (HRQoL) might be related to overall survival while being treated for advanced prostate cancer with Xofigo. Approximately 800 men with advanced prostate cancer were asked [...]
Advanced prostate cancer patients who started androgen deprivation treatment (ADT) treatment with low testosterone levels had worse 1-year progression-free and overall survival after continuous ADT than men with higher testosterone levels. This means that men who are about to start hormone therapy should have their testosterone tested. Those with low testosterone levels should ask their [...]
Is there a patient-medic in the house?? I think I'm suffering from a form of dementia called "Lupron Brain." This is a kind of mental fog that some men on hormone therapy complain about. I thought women were immune, but I guess I was wrong. I recognize the symptoms. Here are some actual quotes from [...]
Dear All, I have been revisiting the issue of salvage radiation therapy (RT) since Ted just began this treatment last week. There isn't a lot of good data (only "retrospective" data) about this, so when I first tackled this subject a few months ago I decided I was better off "reading the tea leaves". But [...]
Dendritic cells are replenished from blood Dendritic cells help direct the body’s immune response by presenting invading antigens to T cells so they know what to attack. But an ongoing debate exists about where dendritic cells originate and how they multiply, especially in the spleen and lymph system. Now, in a paper published in this [...]
