ADT with Radiation Treatment Might Endanger Your Life!
The standard of care and the facts are simple. Men who have aggressive prostate cancer and elect to have radiation therapy will benefit from six months of concurrent hormone therapy (ADT). However, based on recent [...]
Patient Action Leadership Council
The Prostate Cancer Patient Action Leadership Council will meet in late October to plan advocacy events and activities for 2016. You are invited to join. Please sign up at: http://malecare.org/about/survivor-family-friends-advisory-board/
What You Need to Know About Xgeva or Denosumab
Xgeva, also known as denosumab, is an injectable medication (injected once a month subcutaneously under the skin in the doctor’s office) that is used to prevent bone fractures and spinal cord compression caused by bone [...]
Stress and Survival in Prostate Cancer – Looking at a Trial Using Muscle Relaxation and Guided Imagery in Anxiety Reducing Interventions in Prostate and Breast Cancer Chemotherapy
FROM this blog on September 9, 2015 ) According to Michael Jan, MD, and his collaborators at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden those of us who are experiencing high levels of stress need to [...]
Adjuvant Radiotherapy Benefits Survival in Subsets of Men With Node-Positive Prostate Cancer
In an analysis of outcomes reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, men who were diagnosed with lymph node-positive prostate cancer (no bone involvement) who went on to receive targeted radiation (adjuvant radiotherapy) enjoyed a [...]
Prostate Cancer Death Risk Linked to Higher Levels of Stress
Are you stressed? If you are and you have been treated for clinically localized prostate cancer you are at a 66% increased risk of dying from your prostate cancer! Research has shown that high stress [...]