Changing life style is one of the most important recommendations that can be made to all men, especially those diagnosed with prostate cancer. One of the main ingredients to change when modifying your life style is to change your diet. There has been a lot written about optimum prostate cancer diets, one of the best [...]
Posted on the Prostate Problems Mailing list about two months ago was a notice from Dr. Richard Lam about a clinical trial in which his office, Prostate Oncology Specialists, will participate. What I found particularly interesting in this trial is that it was evaluating a potential new drug, abiraterone acetate, which could be used after [...]
The use of ADT is the treatment of choice for advanced, metastatic prostate cancer as long as the cancer is responsive to the blockade. The theory goes that the suppression of circulating testosterone, which fuels prostate-cancer growth, whether by surgical castration (orchiectomy) or castration with testosterone-blocking drugs slows down the progression of the prostate cancer. [...]
Most of you know that I've been married five or six years, but that is not what I'm celebrating. Today I celebrate being a daddy blogger for two whole years. In blog years that's like, forever, dude. I've known many of you for the full two years and some of you are newer, but I [...]
CAUTION, some doctors use estrogen patches as a form of first line hormone blockade therapy for the treatment of prostate cancer. However, scientists from Weill Cornell Medical College, New York City have described the hormone estrogen as a potential key negative player in about half of all prostate cancers. Researchers have found that Estrogen-linked signaling [...]