Honestly, this is a new one me, but a question was asked on the Malecare Health Unlocked online support group that seems to me to be a new prostate cancer curve ball in nutrition. For men with prostate cancer eggs can be problem! Eggs contain a lot of choline and choline is a great feeder [...]
Yesterday’s post described research performed at Northwestern University that found a sharp increase in the number of men diagnosed with advanced aggressive prostate cancer between 2004 and 2013. The research interpretation raised the possibility that the United States Preventive Task Force (USPTF) decision to recommend against the use of the PSA test for prostate cancer [...]
According to information from a published report from the Tuesday, July 19, 2016 edition of HealthDay News, there has been an explosion of new cases of advanced prostate cancer in the United States. They reported on a study using data on nearly 800,000 men listed in the National Cancer Data Base who had been diagnosed [...]
What if I tell you that there is no good evidence that marijuana does any good for treating glaucoma, anxiety, or Parkinson's disease. Despite this, it is often prescribed to treat these aliments in states that have legalized marijuana. According to a large meta analysis of 79 studies published in Journal of the American Medical [...]
Hormone therapy (ADT) is notorious for providing us with side effects. Some of these side effects are best described as ones that deteriorate our general quality of life. For example the most common one we all are familiar with is, of course, hot flashes. You could also add erectile dysfunction as well as loss of [...]
We often refer to prostate cancer as a family affair, or rather being passed on from father to son, etc. This is only partially true because there is still more prostate cancer diagnosed in men without any family history. For those cancers that are passed on from one family member to another it is important [...]
Pamorelin (Trelstar® )is going to become available in the Philippines. Pamorelin, and Decapeptyl® will be made available to urologists and oncologists who treat men with advanced prostate cancer. It will be available in one, three and six month formulations. Pamorelin is an agonist analogue of the natural gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH). It is designed to chemically [...]
The American Association of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) released a very important new policy statement that details their position surrounding the prescribing of opioids to cancer patients. This issue has taken the forefront of controversy as our society increasingly becomes concerned about the overuse of prescription opioids, sometimes leaving out the very specific needs of cancer [...]
We have all been ever increasingly aware of the weakness of our scanning technologies when it comes to both diagnosing prostate cancer and its recurrence. Given that about 1/3 of all primary treatments for prostate cancer will fail and the cancer will return it is vital that we improve our ability to detect prostate cancer [...]
Recently our long time partner, Patient Power (https://www.patientpower.info) has produced a number of videos that are of significant interest to all members of the prostate cancer community. Darryl Mitteldorf, Executive Director of Malecare talks about Malecare and what it does for men with cancer at: https://malecare.org Darryl Mitteldorf, founder of the National LGBT Cancer Project [...]
