Senator Kennedy
There has been a lot of press around the recent announcement that Senator Kennedy has brain cancer. The papers I have read and news reports have been good (very surprisingly) about not making any predictions [...]
Understanding NCI: Toll-Free Teleconference on the Clinical Trials Advisory Committee
NCI’s Office of Advocacy Relations (OAR) will host its third teleconference, Understanding the Role of NCI’s Clinical Trials Advisory Committee, on Wednesday, May 21, from 2:00 – 3:00 p.m., EST. The featured speakers are: Dr. [...]
Understanding Medical Research
Increasingly, we are finding pressure from the insurance world to demonstrate that the treatments we go through are the best available, meaning the most cost effective and yielding the best results. Research into prostate cancer [...]
FDA Approves HIFU Clinical Trial For Recurrent Prostate Cancer
The FDA has announced its conditional approval, pending minor changes to the protocol, for a clinical trial for the treatment of recurrent prostate cancer with the Sonablate(R) 500 (HIFU) in men who have failed external [...]
The AACR Meeting In San Diego
I have been very negligent in not writing about my experience at the American Association of Cancer Researchers (AACR) annual meeting that I attended last month. I found that there was so much information, [...]
Clinical Trials
One of the options for treatment your oncologist may recommend is for you to participate in a clinical trial. Clinical trials are carefully designed research studies that answer specific questions regarding the effectiveness and safety [...]