What Is The Best Treatment For Oligo-Recurrent Prostate Cancer – A Literature Review
When I had my prostate cancer recurrence it was characterized by a PSA in the mid 80s and a few positive lymph nodes showing on scans. My situation (oligo-recurrent prostate cancer) was described in a [...]
Start A Cure Successfully Funds Its First Project – A Disparities Research Project from Johns Hopkins University
When I opened my computer this afternoon I checked the Malecare prostate cancer crowd-funding site to see how things were going. To my great pleasure I discovered that Start A Cure (www.StartACure.org) had achieved it [...]
Using Circulating Tumor Cells as a Prognostic Tool – Better than PSA
Better prediction tools to predict treatment outcome in men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) should significantly improve treatment outcomes. Without good predictive measures we often don't know when is the optimum time to stop [...]
To My Readers – A Special Personal Request
When I was diagnosed with a prostate cancer recurrence I was at the young age of 55 years. I live in New York City where there are a number of face-to-face support groups for prostate [...]
A Caution About Yesterday’s Post About Combining Treatments with Chemotherapy
My post to this blog that was written yesterday indicated that for certain men the early use of chemotherapy (docetaxil) could provide significant life extending benefits, especially for men with very advanced prostate cancer. For [...]
Early Chemotherapy for Men Who Are Still Hormone Responsive – For Some It Might Offer Extra Survival
When I was first diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer one of the first questions that I asked my doctor was whether it made sense for me to start chemotherapy immediately. I very clearly remember him [...]