A True Program For Accelerated Drug Approval – A New Model
In the United Kingdom cancer patients who are terminal have the opportunity to take experimental drugs long before they would be allowed to in the United States. The UK Department of Health has authorized a [...]
Advanced Prostate Cancer And Younger Men
Increasingly, it seems as if I am hearing more and more about much younger guys being diagnosed. I don’t mean men who have a little bump in PSA and having gleason scores of six or [...]
Problems In The Community
It has been said that there is more research going on today then there was ten years ago, but that does not mean that it is enough. Much of our prostate cancer treatments have actually [...]
Advocacy – Your Opportunity To Meet In Your Community With Your Congressional Representative
The National Coalition for Cancer Advocacy recently sent out an email asking advocates to contact their representatives at their district office while they are on their spring break from March 15 – March 30. Specifically, [...]
DES
There are a number of men who have written on various listservs that they use DES (diethylstilbestrol) as a hormonal suppressant. Actually, the current standard of care calls for the use of the gonadotropin-releasing hormone [...]
A Web Cast For You, Your Spouse and Children
Will you be prepared to enter hospice care when the time comes? Will your spouse and your children be prepared? Tomorrow, March 18 there is a web cast on how to deal with end-of-life care. [...]