Five Estate Planning Documents to Have When You’re Battling an Illness Whether you’re young, old, healthy, or ill, estate planning should be a top priority. However, if you’re faced with a prostate cancer or have received some other unfavorable medical diagnosis, it’s especially critical that your legal affairs are in order and up to [...]
In the twenty years since I led Malecare’s first prostate cancer support group, this is the first time I have written an annual letter. Through the upturns and downturns, Malecare has always been a voice of optimism and powerful advocate for men diagnosed with prostate cancer. As we enter 2018, we are [...]
Men with Prostate Cancer May Not Know All Of Their Treatment Options and Risks by Brian Miles, MD Urology Houston Methodist Urology Associates Professor of Urology, Institute for Academic Medicine Houston Methodist - Weill Cornell Medical College According to a September 2017 study by BJU International, men who have been diagnosed with localized prostate [...]
Present. It's where we live. Where we exist. Moment to moment. Not measured by the ticking of the clock. Only measured if we live in the moment...exist, now. Be here, now. We practice for many moments, hours, days, years and then we arrive here, now, in the present. And then, cancer arrives in our [...]
Searching for clinical trials is almost as hard as participating in clinical trials. clinical trial.gov is almost unusable. There are several businesses that have tried to make searching for clinical trials easier. Malecare is working with two of the very best. One, we can't tell you about in detail, since they are still in [...]
High serum levels of total and HDL cholesterol are associated with an elevated risk of advanced prostate cancer. Every 10mg/dl increase in serum total cholesterol adds a 5% increase to your odds of being diagnosed with advanced stage prostate cancer. Every 10mg/dl increase in HDL cholesterol increases your odds of having advanced stage prostate [...]
Men with non-metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer will soon know whether or not apalutamide is helpful. The USA based Food and Drug Administration has cut the review time from ten to six months. We might hear the FDA's ruling as early as April, 2018. Apalutamide (ARN-509) is an androgen receptor inhibitor and might prove to [...]
Exercise of any kind helps men at any stage of Prostate Cancer. Unfortunately, many advanced stage prostate cancer patients don't exercise enough. Advanced Prostate Cancer patients worry about bone pain more than other men. Androgen deprivation therapy, commonly called "hormone therapy," can cause bone problems. Metastases to bones can cause severe pain that many [...]
How cool is this? What if we can change how fast and far prostate cancer cells can metastasize by changing a single protein. The lead article in this months Oncotarget describes how prostate cancer moves in our bodies, and what we might be able to do to prevent metastatic cancer. Epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is [...]
Could a prostate cancer diagnosis or treatment (adt?) be related to Stephen Paddock's behavior? He could have been severely depressed and anxious about a new diagnosis, and, as many men fantasize, he could have wanted to end his life rather than face a future of treatment, and impaired quality of life from those treatments. He [...]
