What Cancer Has Taught Me – What Has Cancer Taught You?
What I have learned from cancer: I learned that I will be have a million tomorrows, so I need to find a way not to waste any of them I may be fortunate to have. [...]
Compassionate Use for Unapproved Drugs
An article in today's New York Times about obtaining drugs under the compassionate use clause boiled my blood. I am not usually one without words, but this story has left me speechless, or wordless. I [...]
Chemo Nausea – An Addendum to the May 11 post, “Nausea, Vomiting & Chemotherapy”
A study performed by the American Clinical Oncology Society and funded by the federal government was released on Thursday that demonstrated that ginger and ginger capsules taken a few days prior to the administration of [...]
Hey, We Also Need Biomarkers
A lot has been written about the need to identify better biomarkers to both assist in the initial diagnosis of prostate cancer and then to help determine which cancers are potentially dangerous from those that [...]
Searching for Clinical Trials
There is a new web site that will make finding a clinical trial specific for prostate cancer even easier. Not only can you search for trials, but now you can locate the trials by location [...]
X-rays Help Predict Permanent Bone Damage From Bisphosphonates
Taking bisphosphonates as a part of our prostate cancer treatment puts all of us in direct risk of developing osteoporosis. Bisphosphonates have been found to place us in a high-risk state for developing osteonecrosis of [...]