Fasting Might Limit Chemotherapy’s Side Effects- A Potential New Paradigm For Taxotere Administration
You are scheduled for chemotherapy (Taxotere if you are being treated for prostate cancer) in a few days, so you stop eating until you complete the therapy session! This scenario could become typical in future [...]
How Fragile Is Life & How Little Is Under Our Control, Even Though We Believe Differently
"So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect [...]
Is Radiotherapy in Lymph Node-Positive Prostate Cancer A Potential Cure?
The general belief is that lymph-node positive prostate cancer patients are not curable. However, there has been some recent studies that argue against this assumption. In a study at the Department of Radiotherapy and Radiobiology [...]
The Potental Use of Dutasteride in the Treatment of Hormone Refractory Prostate Cancer
Common practice is to treat men with advanced prostate cancer with androgen inhibition therapy (ADT) with or without antiandrogens (Casodex). Most of our prostate cancer will progress and develop into androgen-independent prostate cancer despite our [...]
Clinical Trials Using Ipilimumab (MDX-010) – A New Prostate Cancer Vaccine
See the end of this post for information about additional trials that are using Ipilimumab and currently recruiting men with hormone refractory prostate cancer. A multi-site PHASE I study with 33 men has found that [...]
Cough, Cough I Forgot What I Was Going To Say!
Highlights of the advance prostate cancer session meeting in Orlando, Florida included Abstract 531 which evaluated 6,437 men who had received androgen deprivation therapy for more than 1.5 years. According to the abstract Dementia and [...]