Ask Your Doctor “WHY”
When we deal with doctors, we should always view them as fallible human beings just like the rest of us. Arrogance and ego should have no place in medicine, but unfortunately, with some doctors it [...]
Hormone Inhibitor Promising for Hard-To-Treat Prostate Cancer
Two poster presentations at the ESMO Conference at Lugano this week showed that the drug, called Abiraterone, reduced the levels of prostate specific antigen (PSA) in men who have failed initial treatment and in men [...]
The Right To A Trial
Recently, there has been uproar in the prostate cancer community over the FDA's handling of the approval of Provenge. The conflict between patients looking for new treatments and the FDA's attempt to protect the public [...]
Acknowledging Our Caretaker’s Feelings
We survivors should always try to remember that advanced prostate cancer tries our caregivers in ways we do not always consider. We all know that they care and we all know they are worried. The [...]
Rethinking Therapeutic Cancer Vaccine Trials
From clinical cancer research: Rethinking Therapeutic Cancer Vaccine Trials Ongoing therapeutic cancer vaccine trials have yet to show evidence of vaccines spurring a patient's immune system to shrink tumors -- yet patients who receive these [...]
The Ignored Therapy
Imagine taking a drug that circulates in your body until it finds your cancer. Once a cancer cell is found it directly attacks the cell by delivering radiation directly into the cell. The cancer cell [...]