I was tagged by my homie Becky for an "8 things you didn't know about me" meme. At this point many of you know more about me than my own mother, but I still have some nuggets to share. So I might as well give up eight now. 1. The title of this post is [...]
Increasingly, it seems as if I am hearing more and more about much younger guys being diagnosed. I don’t mean men who have a little bump in PSA and having gleason scores of six or less. I am talking about men who on diagnosis have prostate cancer that has left the capsule and already have [...]
It has been said that there is more research going on today then there was ten years ago, but that does not mean that it is enough. Much of our prostate cancer treatments have actually come out breast cancer research. Funding for prostate cancer is out of whack and so out available treatments remain very [...]
The National Coalition for Cancer Advocacy recently sent out an email asking advocates to contact their representatives at their district office while they are on their spring break from March 15 – March 30. Specifically, they are asking you (and I am begging you) to request your representative to get behind H.R. 1078, the Comprehensive [...]
There are a number of men who have written on various listservs that they use DES (diethylstilbestrol) as a hormonal suppressant. Actually, the current standard of care calls for the use of the gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) agonists, leuprolide and goserelin for a hormone blockade. So, what is the actual role of DES and why isn’t [...]