At the moment, if you have surgery for PC and it does not work, the usual course is to try salvage radiation therapy. That is what my husband underwent last year. Fortuntely, his first post-treatment PSA reading was undetectable. But our next appointment with the doctor is in October, so I am already getting a bit weak-kneed. [...]
On 9/11/01, 20 brave firefighters from my neighborhood went to work and never returned. The photo above is of a memorial plaque posted at a firehouse a few blocks from my home. Eleven men from that company were sent to the World Trade Center and only one came home. Went by there today to pay my respects. As [...]
I just wanted to share this good news. For those who don't know him, Michael Milken is a financier and longtime PC patient, as well as a major fundraiser for the prostate cancer. He founded the Prostate Cancer Foundation, (pcf.org), which is the richest PC charity in the world. A more recent project of Milken's is Fastercures.org, which [...]
Make a Difference and Stand Up to Cancer Tune in Friday, September 5, at 8 p.m. (EST) to catch Stand Up to Cancer on ABC, CBS and NBC. This one-hour telecast will feature celebrities (including Lance Armstrong) from film, television, sports, journalism and music coming together to raise money for cancer research. I just read this [...]
I am including an excerpt from a blog post written by Dr. Michael Glode, an experienced genitourinary oncologist. I highly recommend his site because what you get from Dr. Glode is straight talk. Dr. Glode writes that he's had reservations about robotic prostate surgery for a long time. He acknowledges that it is now seen by urologists as the [...]
September is Prostate Cancer Awareness Month and I am thinking what we can do to really shake things up -- to make people really *want* to participate and help wipe out this disease once and for all. We need to shock people into AWARENESS!!!. What a scandal it is that a doctor speaking about PC before an [...]
ScienceDaily (Aug. 27, 2008) — Contrary to stereotypes about sexual performance and masculinity, men interviewed in a large international study reported that being seen as honorable, self-reliant and respected was more important to their idea of masculinity than being seen as attractive, sexually active or successful with women. The study, published in the Journal of [...]
There is an article in today's New York Times in which the author describes his thought processes as he went about first choosing a treatment and then a doctor after he was diagnosed with PC. Trouble is the guy is a newbie who doesn't know anything but thinks he does . But didn't we all?? I think [...]
Recently, I responded to a complaint from a PC patient who felt that many of his friends had abandoned him after he was diagnosed with cancer. (Read the last two postings.) But there are also patients who push others away, and in my opinion, add to the stigma of cancer in the process. Here is a story about [...]
For me the silver lining in my husband's illness and also in my father's year-long hospitalization for a stroke was discovering the kindness of strangers -- now that's something I can write a book about. We tried to keep a 24-hour vigil by by Dad's bedside because the care at the hospital was so bad. [...]
