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Vaccine for Advanced PC Looks Promising

This is an excerpt from a hopeful article I came across in U.S. News and World Report.  SUNDAY, May 18 (HealthDay News) -- A therapeutic vaccine to treat prostate cancer appears safe and may be effective, according to the results of an early trial. The vaccine could give hope to men with metastatic prostate cancer by activating [...]

By |2008-05-19T16:25:25-04:00May 19th, 2008|Postings|0 Comments

Aubrey, How We Will Miss You

The online prostate cancer community was struck with a tragedy last week.  We found out that one of our "elders", Aubrey Pilgrim, a vital man of 84, was diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer and given 4-6 months to live.  I am still trying to absorb the shock of this.  I've been depressed about it all week.  Who wouldn't [...]

By |2021-07-19T10:58:46-04:00May 17th, 2008|People, Families and Grieving|2 Comments

Prostate Biopsies Present A Challenge

I always advise newly diagnosed men to get a second opinion on their biopsies from a very experienced person.  That's because Gleason scores are notoriously inaccurate.  For example, dear husband's biopsy slides were interpeted by three different pathologists and he was assigned three different Gleason scores.  (First biopsy ordered by urologist, second done by hospital pathologist [...]

By |2017-10-19T10:57:45-04:00May 12th, 2008|Articles of Interest, Healing the Mind, Key Post|3 Comments
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