The following is a guest post from a participant of the Malecare Health Unlocked Advanced Prostate Cancer Online Support Group. I would like to share my ideas for coping with stage 4 prostate cancer. Hoping one or two points may encourage others to think about how they may find a better way cope with their [...]
Base on a recently published news release, a prospective study performed and funded by the commercial company GenomeDx Biosciences showed that their new Decipher Cancer Classifier test reclassifies the tumor aggressiveness in men who have had surgery as their primary prostate cancer treatment. According to the company, this newly validated test will improve clinical decision-making [...]
You have been diagnosed with advanced or metastatic prostate cancer. It is a shock, you have cancer and your cancer has already spread outside of the prostate gland. Your doctor might have already told you that at this stage it is no longer curable, and technically it can be called terminal! That is a lot [...]
Today’s New York Times (8/23/16) had an article written by Austin Frakt, which should be of interest to all of us with prostate cancer. The article, “Why It’s Crucial to Choose the Right Hospital appeared on page A3. The entire article is best described by the first sentence, “There’s an exceeding simple way to get [...]
Post-radiation hematuria (PRH), or blood clots in the urine sometimes accompanied with bladder pain or pain in the back, has been a common side effect of radiation delivered to the pelvis. This type of radiation treatment is common as a primary prostate cancer treatment as well as for men who have a prostate cancer recurrence [...]
Again and again I have mentioned the huge need we have for the development of reliable bio-markers. Reliable bio-markers will allow us to know which men will respond positively to a treatment (also those who will not) and when a treatment is still effective (also when it no longer is effective). These biomarkers really don’t [...]
Being able to make better decisions about drug sequencing and combinations has become one of the current hot topics in prostate cancer research. Given that we have a number of newer drugs to use this is an important clinical issue as we make important treatment decisions. Making these clinical decisions is tough. The fact is [...]
There are a few things you should know about penile implants if you are considering having one to treat your erectile dysfunction. First you should know that there are actually two different types of implants available, inflatable implants and semi-rigid rods. The inflatable implants have two different design options; they come in either a two- [...]
One of the terms we hear in the world of cancer is precision medicine. In the area of prostate cancer what does this really mean? Precision medicine is a very broad term, but it can be better described as looking at an individual man’s genetic code and the genetic code of their tumors for the [...]
CVS Health, a major retail pharmaceutical insurer and supplier has raised some consternation and concerns and it should also raise yours. Last Tuesday, CVS rolled out their 2017 formulary list that left off the some of the world’s top-selling drugs including a vital castrate resistant prostate cancer drug. The pharmacy benefits manager removed from their [...]
