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 [...]