We all have a man or men in our life whom we love, respect and wish to honor. November 21, which is fast approaching, is a date which is being set aside to honor them. November 21 is our country’s first annual MENS HEALTH NIGHT. On this night we all have an opportunity to honor [...]
It is again time to contact your members in congress and urge them to support of H.R. 6389 (the Prostate Act), which, if passed, would require coordination and intensification of prostate cancer research by government departments. The bill was introduced on Sept. 29 by the Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-NY), chair of the House Committee on [...]
Referring back to last Friday’s post asking that you share your comments on the ABC News Blog About the President’s failure to light the White House Blue, here are just a few of the many that were posted: Why politicize breast cancer? Every kind of cancer is horrible. Last month (September) was prostate cancer awareness [...]
A member of the advanced prostate cancer on-line support group who is the wife of an advanced prostate cancer survivor in New Mexico just informed us that Trailblazer (the MAC that controls New Mexico reimbursements for Medicare and Medicaid) has said they will not pay for her husband to get Provenge. They were also told [...]
What is the real cost of approved treatments for advanced prostate cancer and how much we should spend? These questions are rippling through the prostate cancer community and the general population. […]