President Bush Declares September National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month
The following press release is from the Press Office of the White House. National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month is an opportunity to underscore our commitment to fighting prostate cancer and to raise awareness about this [...]
A New Phase II Trial for Men with Androgen Independent Prostate Cancer After the Failure of Chemotherapy
Once we develop metastatic androgen-independent prostate cancer and experience disease progression after receiving docetaxel-based chemotherapy we have no approved treatment options. We have hit the proverbial wall! In the process of attempting to develop additional [...]
Identifying That Tumor, Is It A Metastasis or A New Cancer?
Coincidentally, when I experienced my PSA recurrence of prostate cancer my rheumatologist suggested that I have an MRI to check up on the status of spinal involvement from my arthritis. After going through the usual [...]
Cell Genesys Halts VITAL-2 GVAX Trial in Advanced Prostate Cancer
As my regular readers probably have noted from prior posts, I am a strong advocate for research and the development of a prostate cancer vaccine. A cancer vaccine is different from the more “common” types [...]
Bend Those Lycopene Molecules and Enjoy Your Tomato Sauce
According to Ohio State University researchers processing the red tomato boosts the absorption of the all important antioxidant lycopene when consumed. We usually think of processed food not being healthy, but in this case processing [...]
Where Was The Press?
On August 9, Skip Ciccarelli, a 60-year-old prostate cancer survivor arrived at New York City’s Manhattan Kayak Company, located at Pier 66. He was greeted by almost nobody and without any representatives of the press [...]