Drug Abuse Disorders Negatively Impact Advanced Prostate Cancer Treatment Results
Researchers have reported ahead of print that substance use disorders may adversely affect outcomes in men with advanced prostate cancer This conclusion was drawn from a very large study of 14,277 men with advanced prostate [...]
British Men Who Have Had Abiraterone Will Not Get Enzalutamide Despite Its Life Extending Abilities
British Men Who Have Had Abiraterone Will Not Get Enzalutamide Despite Its Life Extending Ability Our brothers in England hit a major snag last week as NHS placed a burdensome restriction on the use of [...]
Join Me in Los Angeles in September at the PCRI Prostate Cancer Patient Conference
There are conferences for doctors and conferences for researchers, but there is also a conference just for prostate cancer survivors and their caretakers! The Prostate Cancer Research Institute (PCRI), a partner of Malecare, annually sponsors [...]
Emergency Alert- We Need to Respond – The U.S. Senate Threatens to Cut the DOD Prostate Cancer Research Program Budget
In my most humble opinion among the most vital and impactful program in the world, which supports prostate cancer research funding and prostate cancer research resources, is in trouble. It is the only government program [...]
What are the Clinical implications of Chemotherapy for Men with Advanced Prostate Cancer Under the Age of 60 years?
Yesterday’s post was about the use of chemotherapy (with docetaxel) for the treatment of men with advanced prostate cancer who were 80 years old or older. Today’s post is about the use of chemotherapy in [...]
Should Men Over the Age of 80 Years Consider Chemotherapy? *
Chemotherapy (chemo with docetaxel) has a reputation for being a difficult therapy loaded with many side effects. I believe that this reputation is overblown given that all of our new non-chemotherapies (other than Provenge) come [...]