Evidence Shows Older Healthy Men Should Receive Treatment for Aggressive Prostate Cancer Despite the Nonsence Findings from the U.S. Preventive Task Force
Healthy, Older Men Live Longer With Aggressive Prostate Cancer Treatment so we should provide treatment. The US Preventive Task Force (USPTF) report which has caused huge amounts of debate in the prostate cancer community, especially [...]
Prostate Caner Awareness in London
On June 13, 2009 I wrote about a competition taking place in London (UK) between a group of very selective advertisement agencies. One entry into the competition was a “wild card” entry, promoting prostate cancer [...]
What Effect You will Leave Behind
When the reactor at Russia's Chernobyl melted down about 20 years ago, we saw the potential horrors that our atomic age can cause. The radioactive gases released were all invisible, odorless, and undetectable to the [...]
Will Provenge or Any Treatment for Advanced Prostate Cancer Survive Health Reform?
Yesterday’s New York Times article about health care reform and the overly inflated cost of the American health care system should ring large and loud alarm bells in the prostate cancer community. This article, along [...]
Generic Casodex Is Coming to Market
The generic drug manufacturing company from India, Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd, has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to sell a generic version of AstraZeneca's prostate cancer drug Casodex. Casodex (bicalutamide) [...]
Can a smart bomb save my life? Scientists at Purdue University Think It Can
Researchers at Purdue have developed what they have described as prostate cancer “homing device.” They believe that this treatment modality can improve detection, and allow for the first targeted treatment of prostate cancer. The researchers [...]