Today’s post is not directly an advanced prostate cancer post, but more about a new potential and very interesting treatment on the horizon for men with prostate cancer that might otherwise be considered for active surveillance. According to the researchers who have been working on the treatment protocol, it is "truly transformative". This is not [...]
Drugs and their names are just confusing. When they are being developed they are given many different names. Despite their names the drugs (or treatments) are the same. Names are just names nothing more. For laymen, drugs having multiple names for the same drug is confusing. So, why are there so many different names for [...]
A late-stage clinical trial designed to see if Xtandi in addition to Zytiga along with a steroid worked any better than either of these drugs separately (combining them v sequencing them) in men with advanced prostate cancer whose disease had worsened it was concluded that the combination was not superior to the individual drugs. This [...]
The following was posted on the Malecare Advanced Prostate Cancer Health Unlocked online support group. I have received permission to reprint it here because it might be helpful to some of you. FYI- Provenge is a cancer vaccine that helps to mobilize your own immune system to your prostate cancer. It is currently only [...]
Screening for early cancer detection may reduce the rate of related metastatic disease, but not always. In a published study in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers evaluated the incidence of men having a diagnosis of advanced, metastatic prostate cancer at the initial prostate cancer diagnosis. The researchers data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and [...]
Last Wednesday the House passed with a vote of 392 to 26, a medical innovation bill known as the 21st Century Cures Act, aimed at curing diseases, with the measure securing bipartisan support after months of negotiations. The bill’s goals are to speed up the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of new drugs while also investing [...]
There have been numerous studies examining the how hormone deprivation (ADT), in the treatment of prostate cancer, has on a man’s cognition. There have been contradictor studies about this issue, however having had the experience and the honor of dealing with so many men with prostate cancer treated with androgen deprivation therapy (ADT), as well [...]
I've been leading Malecare Cancer Support for nineteen years. You have honored me by sharing your time, voice and heart in one or more of our programs. Thank you for that! You have taught me a lot about happiness, disease, hurt and fear. You've shown me respect, made me laugh, and challenged me when I was [...]
It is deeply troubling to learn that Congress is considering not completing the fiscal year 2017 budget appropriations process. Because of the normal political fighting that we still see in Washington, Congress is now considering passing a short-term or even long-term budget continuing resolution instead of the negotiated budget resolution they have worked so hard [...]
It is well established that common drugs like Metformin and vitamin D? exhibit a strong anti-proliferative action in many cancer cell lines. Recent research confirms that this is also true in human prostate cancer cells. In a recent study it was demonstrated that the combination of the two drugs, metformin and vitamin D3, had a [...]
