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Great News for the Advanced Prostate Cancer Community – The FDA Grants a Priority Review for Radium-223 Dichloride (Alpharadin)

Some more good news for the advanced prostate cancer community was announced today. Bayer HealthCare announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted priority review to their New Drug Application (NDA) filed in December 2012 for the investigational oncology compound radium-223 dichloride (radium-223). The application is under review for the treatment of [...]

By Malecare|2020-02-04T08:22:15-05:00February 13th, 2013|Advanced Prostate Cancer, Alpharadin (radium-223), Clinical Trials, Clinical Trials, FDA, General Information, Uncategorized|0 Comments

Knowing Good from Bad Information Published on the Internet

We all use the Internet to learn about our prostate cancer, your reading this post confirms this statement. The Internet can be a useful tool for finding information and connecting with other patients and caregivers. However, it can also be a nightmare of unreliable misinformation. Understanding what is credible, accurate and reliable information about prostate [...]

By Malecare|2021-02-17T11:03:16-05:00February 12th, 2013|Advanced Prostate Cancer, General Information, How We Live, Uncategorized, Understanding APC|0 Comments

Evaluating the Validity of Cancer Research Reports

One of the most common gripes I hear (and one that I often express) is that Medical news changes often. How often do we hear of a "breakthrough" only to be disputed the next week. It is confusing and it is difficult to know what news to believe and whether we should change a practice, [...]

By Malecare|2017-10-19T10:50:10-04:00February 6th, 2013|Advanced Prostate Cancer, Advocacy, How We Live, Uncategorized, Understanding APC|0 Comments

We Need to Improve Access to Oral Chemotherapy By Changing Insurance Co-Pays and Out-Of-Pocket Expenses

Cancer chemotherapy agents historically have been administered intravenously or by an injection. In recent times there have been a number of emerging oral chemotherapy. Most of us strongly prefer the oral drugs as they are a convenient and noninvasive alternative to intravenous and injected therapies. Additionally, many of the intravenously delivered chemotherapy drugs target and [...]

By Malecare|2013-02-05T13:54:54-05:00February 5th, 2013|Advanced Prostate Cancer, Advocacy, Drugs & Treatments, How We Live, Uncategorized|0 Comments

Lady Sybil Dies on Downton Abbey Leaving an Important Message for All of Us

I recently read a very interesting post by Trisha Torrey on About.com about a happening on the TV show, Downton Abbey. Downton Abbey is a PBS (in the United States) TV show that originates from the UK. Briefly, the show is about the British aristocracy and their help, not dissimilar to the other famous show [...]