Men with non-metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer will soon know whether or not apalutamide is helpful. The USA based Food and Drug Administration has cut the review time from ten to six months. We might hear the FDA's ruling as early as April, 2018. Apalutamide (ARN-509) is an androgen receptor inhibitor and might prove to [...]
Exercise of any kind helps men at any stage of Prostate Cancer. Unfortunately, many advanced stage prostate cancer patients don't exercise enough. Advanced Prostate Cancer patients worry about bone pain more than other men. Androgen deprivation therapy, commonly called "hormone therapy," can cause bone problems. Metastases to bones can cause severe pain that many [...]
How cool is this? What if we can change how fast and far prostate cancer cells can metastasize by changing a single protein. The lead article in this months Oncotarget describes how prostate cancer moves in our bodies, and what we might be able to do to prevent metastatic cancer. Epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is [...]
Could a prostate cancer diagnosis or treatment (adt?) be related to Stephen Paddock's behavior? He could have been severely depressed and anxious about a new diagnosis, and, as many men fantasize, he could have wanted to end his life rather than face a future of treatment, and impaired quality of life from those treatments. He [...]
Waiting Guest Post by Robert Hanlon I’m waiting for results. Or rather, I’m not waiting. I’m trying to be not waiting. Most of the time it works. I’ve talked about, written about strolling toward death. Where I do not think about it, and mosey on my way since there is nothing to be done, and [...]