A PSA only recurrence (biochemical failure) post a primary treatment for prostate cancer is relatively common, approximately 30% of those treated! A biochemical failure is characterized a return of increasing PSA without any other evidence of cancer on a scan. Failure can happen immediately after primary treatment has been completed or many years after the [...]
There is a brief, but great YouTube video that very simply and clearly explains the current thinking about how and why prostate cancer becomes androgen independent (castrate resistant). View the video by clicking here Joel T Nowak, M.A., M.S.W.
To evaluate the effects of timing and length of zoledronic acid (ZA) treatment on outcomes for men with prostate cancer, researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago and the Hind T. Hatoum & Company, Chicago, IL. evaluated a large contingent of men who had been diagnosed with prostate cancer from January 2003 to October [...]
Researchers at the Department of Hematology-Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Boston, Massachusetts performed an evaluation of the natural history of castration-resistant non-metastatic prostate cancer. For their analysis, the researchers used data from 331 subjects in a placebo group of a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the relations of disease and host characteristics with time [...]
That most people want to be happy but just don't know how. In many ways it's a life-long journey. But you have to want to take the journey and know what it looks like when you arrive at certain milestones along the way. That's the hard part. Being a jerk is beyond easy. Sure it [...]