Androgen Deprivation Therapy Can Affect Your Thinking

Paranoia, anger, fear, and acting out fantasies of a violent nature from men on Prostate Cancer androgen deprivation therapy are some of the reports we've received over the last year. Obviously, these are concerning and under-reported by the medical community. We have heard from people in our support groups, but have not heard or read [...]

By |2017-10-02T11:50:42-04:00September 21st, 2017|Advanced Prostate Cancer|0 Comments

Malecare, Yale, Memorial Sloan Kettering and M.D. Anderson talk about Latest Treatments & Shared Decision Making

Breakthroughs in Prostate Cancer https://vimeo.com/220740406 An interesting discussion about prostate cancer breakthroughs, some of which patients can use today, with: Philip Kantoff, MD, Chair, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Daniel Petrylak, MD, Director, Genitourinary Oncology, Co-Director, Signal Transduction Research Program, Yale University Cancer Center Sumit Subudhi, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Genitourinary [...]

By |2017-10-19T10:45:46-04:00June 9th, 2017|Advanced Prostate Cancer|3 Comments

Breast Cancer Test Can Tell If Hormone Therapy Will Work On Prostate Cancer

A breast cancer test may be adapted to help men with advanced stage prostate cancer know – in advance - if androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) will help them. Researchers from UCSF and the University of Michigan investigated genetic subtypes of prostate cancer, to see what the difference could predict. The researchers divided prostate tumors into [...]

By |2017-05-30T17:04:51-04:00May 30th, 2017|Advanced Prostate Cancer|0 Comments

Jevtana, Taxotere, Zytiga and Xtandi discussion – video from ASCO 2016

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/

By |2020-02-04T11:56:52-05:00May 23rd, 2017|Advanced Disease, Advanced Prostate Cancer|0 Comments
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