Between 2011 and 2013, the proportion of men diagnosed with intermediate- or high-risk prostate cancer, increased by 3% per year. Thank you members of the United States Preventive Services Task Force for realy blowing it and tapping in the nail into the coffins of American men. In a preliminary study the authors estimate that this [...]
The national men’s cancer survivor support and advocacy nonprofit organization, Malecare, protests against the proposed elimination of funding for prostate cancer at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers in America. Almost 30,000 American men die from prostate cancer every year. And, African American men die [...]
Cancer survivors have many additional problems in their life. I guess the most significant problem is that we have a life threatening illness. So, why are we forced to have to worry if our medications will be paid for or if we are able to afford to pay for them? When we are fighting for [...]
Traditionally, the FDA makes its regulatory decisions based solely on demonstrated safety and provable increases in meaningful survival data. The FDA asks, Will a new treatment that is being considered for approval be able to extend our life longer than the current standard of care? They also ask if it will extend our life is [...]
Doctors are not trained to communicate with patients. Now, with the onset of electronic medical records this problem has become worse. Many of them hardly even look their patient in the eyes; instead their faces are often buried in the computer screen and not on us. Since they don’t really know us, they stumble around, [...]