As I get older and because of the hormone blockade I have gained weight, I do not mean a little weight, I have gained a lot of weight. Exercise has also become very difficult because of the peripheral neuropathy that the blockade has given me. I even have difficulty just walking! Now that I have [...]
Did you know that cancer patients still have to go to their internists for their routine check ups? It doesn't matter how many other doctors we see about our cancer, we still need to go and have all that other normal type of stuff done. I know it doesn't seem fair, we seem to spend [...]
Our brothers in Australia can finally have access to Taxotere! The Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) has finally listed Taxotere for men with hormone refractory prostate cancer. Now, our brothers in Australia will not have to personally pay to obtain their Taxotere. Up until this point, those who were able to afford to pay for Taxotere [...]
General cancer research has made great strides over the last few years. Over this past year, we have seen the first major advance in twenty years in kidney cancer; new treatment options for breast cancer, targeted therapies for head and neck cancers as well as a novel gene profiling test that can predict which patients [...]
Often, the FDA limits access to clinical trials to patients who have failed all other approved therapies. This means that we only evaluate potential new drugs on individuals who are already very sick and have been weakened by their disease as well as their prior treatments. Cancer cells "learn" how to survive treatments by mutating. [...]