Maybe you are newly diagnosed and want to know what part if any diet may play in your recovery. What do other people do? I have to stress that there are no absolutes here. As far as I know, no nutritional remedy for prostate cancer has ever been shown to be effective using the most [...]
I just read an article about a man who recently fathered a set of twins -- a boy and a girl. What's different about this story is that the man was diagnosed with prostate cancer at age 43 and had had a prostatectomy. As a result, his body was no longer producing sperm. But through modern technology, specifically [...]
Listen to real people talk about what it's like to have prostate cancer on the NY Times blog: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/26/voices-of-prostate-cancer/ I have not had a chance to listen to this, but I'm sure it's worthwhile. There are interviews with a diverse group of men who've had PC. I commend the NT Times for its prominent coverage [...]
This was a good week for prostate cancer. First there was a front-page article in the Sunday New York Times which reported that the drug finasteride (Proscar) may, if taken regularly, lower one's risk of developing prostate cancer by 30%. Then there was a study by Dr. Ornish of UC San Francisco, (excellent hospital), which [...]
I just saw that Dana Jennings, who writes a blog about his prostate cancer for the NYT, is discussing language and cancer. So I recycled this essay I wrote some time back. It amazes me that doctors still use the word biochemical failure to refer to a recurrence of prostate cancer. A doctor told me, [...]