Can Bone Pain Predict Survival in Men with Metastatic Hormone-Refractory Prostate Cancer Treated with Docetaxel? What are the Implications?
A small study of 145 men with asymptomatic metastatic hormone-refractory prostate cancer (HRPC) was conducted to determine the benefit of starting early chemotherapy with docetaxel. Collected data were analyzed from these subjects who were treated [...]
Support Prostate Cancer Research Funding NOW
The Department of Defense manages a significant fund given by congress to finance high risk and high impact research. One of the specific diseases that is funded is prostate cancer. In my personal opinion this [...]
A Good Reason To Learn About Your Cancer
A report published in the April 1 issue of Cancer stated that Dr. Stacy Gray, as lead investigator from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, has released some findings about the role internet research plays [...]
Your Attitude
“The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we [...]
Proper Warfarin Dosing – Using Genetics
One of the significant secondary side effects resulting from of our advanced prostate cancer treatments can be blood clots. Blood clots are potentially dangerous as they can lead to heart attacks, strokes and death. Warfarin [...]
A Request for Study Subjects
A graduate student, Patrica Ames, has requested that I announce her request for subjects to participate in a study she is performing about clinical trial participants. Here it is: Invitation: Hello. I am reposting this [...]