Happy DNA Day!
Happy DNA Day! First celebrated in 2003 by proclamation of the Senate and the House of Representatives, the holiday commemorates the day James Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin first published their papers [...]
Recurring Prostate Cancer- What ADT Treatment Schedule Is Superior?
One of the many constantly recurring topics that we discuss is over the efficacy of intermittent hormone deprivation therapy (IAD) as opposed to continuous hormone deprivation therapy (CAD). Which therapy is better has been debated [...]
Tips To Reduce The Cancer Risk Of Grilling Meat And Other Food Ideas To Consider
If you are like me then you enjoy eating grilled meat. I know, eating red meat isn’t going to be healthy, but I still enjoy it and I long ago decided that eating, in moderation, [...]
How To Get A Blood Test For AR-V7 If You Have Castrate Resistant Prostate Cancer
In the near future we should be seeing more non-invasive methods to evaluate if a man is responding to their drugs. One such example is the blood bio-marker available only at Johns Hopkins, the Androgen [...]
High Volume Radiation Treatment Facilities Produce Better Survival In Men with Aggressive Prostate Cancer
According to researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston Ma., men with aggressive prostate cancer who have radiation therapy to treat the cancer have better overall survival rates when the therapy is given at a high volume treatment [...]
Salvage Radical Prostatectomy Improves Long Term Survival in Men with Radiation Recurrent Prostate Cancer
A retrospective study, using the SEER Date, a U.S. national database, analyzed data from men diagnosed with prostate cancer and found that salvage radical prostatectomy (SRP) improved the long-term survival in men whose cancer has returned after receiving radiation [...]