Many members of Congress see the potential of an increased investment in the NIH as part of the solution to our ailing economy. We prostate cancer survivors can glean additional benefits from an increase to NIH funding, in our fight against this terrible disease. The belief that making an increased economic investment in research through [...]
Remember back to when your children were young and you would sit at a table with them and help put together a puzzle. Depending upon the puzzle’s size and complexity, it could take hours of hard work; however, the time was well spent because you could bond on a common task with your children. When [...]
There is a lot of pressure on cancer survivors to participate in clinical trials. Without the brave individuals willing to participate in the trials research would grind to a halt along with new, improved treatments for all cancers. Even though an estimated 2.3 million people in the United States take part in clinical trials every [...]
The results of a new study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute indicate that both diagnoses and deaths from common cancers, such as lung, breast and prostate, are declining. The drops have been especially dramatic with prostate cancer. *However*, there is some reason to believe that fewer men are getting PSA tests, [...]
Woman should not be given mammograms for the same reason that men should not have PSA tests! This is the conclusion that would be very easy to come away with after reading an article in today’s New York Times (November 25, 2008), “Study Suggests Some cancers May Go Away”, by Gina Kolata. Researchers, for many [...]