Advanced prostate cancer poses a deadly paradox for younger men (aged 35 to 44 years). Younger men diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer will have a shorter remaining life span than older men who develop the disease, despite the fact that in general younger men have a much lower risk of dying from prostate cancer. Daniel [...]
A multi-center Phase III study was discussed at the 2009 meeting of the American Urological Association.[1] The perliminar results of this study has demonstrated that the risk for incurring bone fractures in men on androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) is reduced when the drug toremifene (Acapodene) is administered. Men, fighting advanced prostate cancer, often receive long-term [...]
I want to discuss Michelle Obama’s recent statements in support of the president’s attempts to change the health care system in the United Sates. You do not have to worry; I am not going to go into the proposed changes and all the controversy that is whirling around the various proposals, that is a separate [...]
I have often hypothesized that stress can escalate the rate of prostate cancer progression, leading to earlier deaths. I work actively to find ways to eliminate stress from my immediate environment and from my life. I have told the story many times about two men who were members of my weekly Malecare prostate cancer support [...]
The September issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine published a study that shows that positron emission tomography (PET)/computer tomography (CT) scans using the imaging agent choline could detect recurring prostate cancer sooner than conventional imaging technologies in some men who have had prostatectomy. Men who elect to have a radical prostatectomy to treat prostate [...]