There is exciting news out of the 2008 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium in San Francisco. An abstract (American Society of Clinical Oncology 2008 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium (GCS): Abstract 85) presented at the conference described a retrospective study that strongly suggests that salvage radiotherapy reduced the risk of dying from prostate cancer by more than 60% for [...]
I have invited Dr. Arnon Krongrad, M.D. to submit an occasional post. He is a pioneer of the Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy and currently practices at the Krongrad Institute in Aventura Florida. This post on preventing prostate cancer is a little late for those of us who have recurrent, advanced disease, but it isn’t to late [...]
The American Cancer Society has released its revised statistical projections for prostate cancer diagnoses and deaths in the United States for the upcoming year of 2008. The projection calls for 186,320 men to be diagnosed and 28,660 to die from the disease. These numbers do not take into account the many men who die from [...]
As women age and enter into menopause the hormonal changes they experience causes them to suffer from loss of bone mineral density (BMD). Men who are on a hormone blockade also experience similar losses of their bone density. Lower bone mineral density greatly increases your general risk of breaking bones. Breaking bones not only creates [...]
I am a firm believer in survivors helping other men deal with their prostate cancer, however there are areas of caution. What treatment should I move on to; hormone blockade; Keto or chemotherapy. Should I participate in a clinical trial? What’s best for me? It seems that there is a lot of advice out there, [...]