Clinical Trial Using HIFU for Men with Advanced Prostate Cancer After Radiation Failure
HIFU (high-intensity focused ultrasound) is one of the newer treatments for prostate cancer. Although not yet approved in the United States it has received a lot of press and growing popularity as a primary treatment [...]
Senator Harkin and the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Hold Hearings on the Budget Allocations to the NCI for Cancer Research
On Thursday the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education held its FY 2010 NIH budget hearing. There were two particular items of note for the cancer community. When discussing the [...]
Younger Men with Advanced Prostate Cancer Die Earlier from the Cancer
A paradoxical, but logical finding, indicates that I am more likely to die from prostate cancer than my fellow pc survivors. In the world of prostate cancer I am a young man. I was diagnosed [...]
Does Androgen-Deprivation Therapy Provide a Survival Benefit? A Look at Survival Outcomes in Men Receiving ADT as Primary or Salvage Treatment for Localized or Advanced Prostate Cancer- Conclusions from a 20-Year Single-Center Experience
The Department of Urology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, performed a retrospective study designed to evaluate the overall survival (OS) and disease-specific survival (DSS) in men receiving primary androgen-deprivation therapy (PADT) or [...]
Take Action – Advocate for Increased Funding for the DOD PCRP
Getting increased funding for the Department of Defense (DOD) Peer Review Prostate Cancer Research Program (PCRP) is one of the goals that have been identified by a coalition of many of the prostate cancer advocacy [...]
Funding for the DOD
I have been talking about the need to increase the funding levels for the Department of Defense (DOD) Peer Review Prostate Cancer Research Program (PCRP) for a long period. This program has proven itself to [...]