The 5 Important Questions We Need To Ask Men Who Are End Stage – Handling Grief
Advanced prostate cancer will eventually end, barring another cause of death, with the demise of the individual survivor. Knowing that you suffer from a terminal illness is hard, it is hard on the family and [...]
Enzalutamide Prescribing Info Includes New Information
Enzalutamide (Xtandi) has a new, expanded FDA label. The new label conforms with the clinical trial (TERRAIN) results that Xtandi is a superior drug to Casodex (bicalutamide) for men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). [...]
POM Wonderful Misled Its Customers – Do You Take Pomegranate Juice or Supplements?
Many of us have believed that pomegranate juice like POM Wonderful and POMx supplements treat, prevent or reduce the risk of heart disease, prostate cancer or erectile dysfunction? The simple truth is that this assertion has been [...]
Response Vs. Reaction: The Mouse Theory of Dealing with Cancer
I was at a restaurant recently and I saw a mouse shoot across the floor and scamper under a table. I wasn’t the only one who noticed the little critter. A number of people began [...]
Can A Low Carb Diet Affect the Side Effects of Hormone Therapy (ADT)?
Dr. Steve Freedland, from Cedar Sinai conducted a controlled, randomized clinical study that evaluated the efficacy of an extremely low carbohydrate diet on the side effects of hormone therapy (ADT). The study showed that an [...]
Expanding the Role of Radium-223 (Xofigo)
One of the newer drugs and one that has recently had great air play is the bone targeting radiopharmaceutical drug radium-223 or Xofigo. Currently, it is approved for men with castrate resistant prostate cancer with [...]