Something we hope our prostate cancer won't cause to our loved ones. Eventually is a collection of first person video testimonials about significant loss and bereavement. In each account, participants reflect upon their own experience, recount events leading up to and around the death of their family member or loved one, talk about how they [...]
According to an article in today’s USA Today, many more doctors will not be accepting medical insurance plans offered through Affordable Care Act exchanges. The reason cited is that these plans often have lower reimbursement rates than the commercial plans. The article indicated that “some doctors are limiting how many new patients they take with [...]
Day 25 of Xofigo shutdown. We're hearing from men who have lost the opportunity to continue their treatment on schedule. We're hearing from deeply worried spouses. We want to hear from you, too. Malecare continues to investigate. Malecare contacted factory workers at the Bayer plant in Norway. Predictably, they wouldn't answer Malecare's questions about when [...]
Some good news for my European brothers, the European Medicines Agency Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has adapted a positive opinion in support of the label expansion of enzalutamide (XTANDI) to include the treatment of men with metastatic castrate resistant prostate cancer (MCRPC) who are asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic after the failure [...]
In a poster presentation at the recent European Society of Medical Oncologists (ESMO) there was a very interesting poster presented updating a phase 3 clinical trial (CA184-043) which evaluated the overall survival (OS) with radiotherapy (RT) followed by either the immunologic drug Ipilimumab (Ipi) or with a placebo. This trial did not meet its endpoint [...]