Medicare Open Enrollment Begins Today
All of the Americans who receive their insurance benefits from Medicare need to become aware that the Medicare Open Enrollment Period begins today, October 15. What is the Medicare open enrollment period?During this open [...]
61 Years Young & 67 Years Old – One We keep and the Other Is To Be Discarded!
We are now around half way through the month of October, I am sorry breast cancer awareness month, I keep forgetting! How can I forget with that pink ribbon on everything I buy at the [...]
Is Zytiga Working and When to Move on to Another Treatment? Knowing by Counting Your CTCs
At the 2013 European Cancer Congress in Amsterdam Dr. Howard Scher from Sloan Kettering Hospital reported that a panel of biomarkers could identify men with metastatic, castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) who were responding well or [...]
Oligometastatic Prostate Cancer – Still Curable So Be Vigilant
It is generally agreed that prostate cancer which is still 100% confined to the prostate gland is curable using local therapies like radiation or surgery, but when it has left the prostate gland and becomes [...]
Overusing Radiation to Treat Bone Pain in Men with Advanced Prostate Cancer
Extra radiation will not keep the doctor away, so why do we use it? According to a recent study published in the Oct. 9 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association most men [...]
StartACure – Now is the Time to Step Up and Start A Cure for Prostate Cancer
Today’s post will be a little admonishment of you, my loyal readers. So, please be open-minded and think about what I have to say to you. A number of months ago I mentioned the new [...]