There is now new hope for chemo holidays for men with advanced prostate cancer!!!! In a first-of-its-kind study, it has been found that men with advanced prostate cancer can take a much-needed safe break, or holiday, from chemotherapy in a similar manner as with ADT. Tomasz Beer, M.D., just published in the journal Cancer a [...]
According to the American Cancer Society, prostate cancer claims approximately 27,000 of us each year, the vast majority of our deaths are a result of recurrent metastatic disease. Metastatic prostate cancer occurs when tumor cells spread to other locations in the body and start to grow. Currently, when you start Chemotherapy the only way to [...]
Google and the Cleveland Clinic have entered into an agreement to start a pilot program whereby Google will store patient medical records online. The experimental program will allow 1,500 to 10,000 of the Cleveland’s Clinics patients to have certain of their records stored in a password-protected file. Initially, the records will include prescriptions, allergies and [...]
On the close horizon is a new drug that will treat the many side effects of a hormone blockade (ADT). On Monday, positive results of a phase III clinical trial of toremifene citrate was released to the press. GTX Inc. (GTXI), the biopharmaceutical company that has been conducting the trial says that by this coming [...]
To many people’s surprise on Friday the FDA approved Avastan in combination with the chemotherapy drug Paclitaxel for the treatment of breast cancer. Why was this a surprise? The FDA’s advisory committee voted 5 to 4 against approving the drug. In the clinical trial Avastan did not demonstrate a statistically improved survival rate. However, it [...]