On January 30 I had my standard blood work, which included the old reliable PSA. As I have predicted, my PSA has continued to double at the rate of 5.1 months with the velocity of 0.02 ng/ml/mo. This is a rate that is consistent with the prior doubling rates, although my oncologist has told me [...]
Last year, prostate cancer claimed the lives of more than 28,000 American men -- that's one death every 18 minutes. In fact, it's the leading cause of cancer among men: a non-smoking man is more likely to develop prostate cancer than he is to develop colon, bladder, melanoma, lymphoma and kidney cancer combined. With 1 [...]
In experiments reported in the journal Nature, scientists from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute have identified 10 metabolites that become more profuse in prostate cells as the cancer progresses. They identified one of these metabolites, sarcosine, as appearing to be directly related to prostate cancer cell invasion into surrounding tissue. We constantly hear the complaint [...]
There is nothing more frustration that the current methods used by the FDA to approve drugs. The theory is great, but how it gets translated into our real world is killer, I mean a literal killer of men. The FDA wants assurances that before they approve a drug that it really works, or shows efficacy. [...]
An announcement from Market Watch claims that Cougar Biotechnology has come to an agreement with the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) to conduct an additional Phase III trial of abiraterone acetate in prostate cancer. The currently ongoing and much in demand Phase III trial of abiraterone acetate was designed for prostate cancer survivors who [...]