Dealing With Stress
Having prostate cancer, especially recurrent or advanced prostate cancer, is always stressful for both the survivor and their caregivers. There are easily learned coping techniques to help us calm our mind and sharpen our ability [...]
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On January 30 I had my standard blood work, which included the old reliable PSA. As I have predicted, my PSA has continued to double at the rate of 5.1 months with the velocity of [...]
Malecare Prostate Cancer Action Request- A Request from Darryl Mitteldorf, Executive Director of Malecare
Last year, prostate cancer claimed the lives of more than 28,000 American men -- that's one death every 18 minutes. In fact, it's the leading cause of cancer among men: a non-smoking man is more [...]
New Prostate Cancer Marker In Urine Could Help Us To Know When The Cancer Is Aggressive And Needs Treatment
In experiments reported in the journal Nature, scientists from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute have identified 10 metabolites that become more profuse in prostate cells as the cancer progresses. They identified one of these metabolites, [...]
A Possible Surrogate Endpoint- Circulating Tumor Cells
There is nothing more frustration that the current methods used by the FDA to approve drugs. The theory is great, but how it gets translated into our real world is killer, I mean a literal [...]
Cougar Biotech and the FDA Agree on new Abiraterone Trial
An announcement from Market Watch claims that Cougar Biotechnology has come to an agreement with the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) to conduct an additional Phase III trial of abiraterone acetate in prostate cancer. [...]