Last week I had the privilege of attending the Annual 2012 American Association of Cancer Researchers (AACR) in Chicago through the generosity of the Scientist-Survivor Program. The meeting involved five days of educational sessions, symposia and posters. In the course of the next week or so, I will be discussing some of the prostate cancer [...]
This month has been very tough for the prostate cancer community. Earlier, prostate cancer took from us John Arnold who was both a consummate educator about prostate cancer and now it has taken another prostate cancer fighter, Fred Gersh. Fred passed away in the morning of April 6 after having been hospitalized for about [...]
Fred Gersh died earlier this morning, from the Prostate Cancer that he had been fighting for many years. Fred was a friend and ally to Malecare. He spent much of the last decade of his life as a prostate cancer advocate. I met Fred during one of the many conferences we both attended. One day, [...]
According to an article written by Reuters some doctors have raised doubts about the efficacy of Provenge, known scientifically as sipuleucel-T. Prostate cancer vaccine Provenge has long incited passions unlike any other cancer therapy and the story seems to continue even to today. The current issue has been raised by Marie Huber, a trained scientist [...]
I don't know where the time goes! At some point I looked up and a crazy amount of time had passed by. I feel like I have been constantly working doing presentations, writing, and networking yet nothing is happening aside from, or is as certain as, the passage of time. All of my efforts despite [...]
It is important to remember that confronting our feelings and giving them appropriate expression always takes strength, not weakness. It takes strength to acknowledge our anger, and sometimes more strength to curb the aggressive urges that our anger may bring and then to channel them into nonviolent outlets. It takes strength to face our sadness [...]
It is with great sorrow I must share the news of the death of John Arnold. John had been a long time contributor to the advanced prostate cancer support group. As he approach the end of his life and decided to enter into Hospice Care he, in his typical unselfish way, let us know that [...]
Recognizing Stress Life without prostate cancer can be very stressful….but life with prostate cancer is guaranteed to be stressful. From the moment you are diagnosed your life changes, including your stress level. Our stress level results from an accumulation of various stress factors such as heavy workload, poor communications, multiple frustrations, coping with situations in [...]
For some reason you have to call a thing what it is. If you are baking a cake, you can't call it a cookie. If you are angry, you shouldn't sugar coat it and say you are annoyed or upset. If there's no alcohol in it, it's not a cocktail. I can go on and [...]
