Women: How to Help Your Man with Intimacy after RP
I have removed the full text of this article. To read it, please go to the site below and click on info for "Companions". See "Ten Pointers for Women". http://phoenix5.org
New “Wonder Drug” for Prostate Cancer: Hope or Hype?
Tuesday night I fell asleep with my radio on. A few hours later I awoke to hear that a "wonder drug" had been discovered for prostate cancer. Exactly what I had been dreaming about. I was half-asleep at the time, so in the morning I set out to find out more. The BBC reported that an experimental [...]
The Voices of Prostate Cancer
Listen to real people talk about what it's like to have prostate cancer on the NY Times blog: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/26/voices-of-prostate-cancer/ I have not had a chance to listen to this, but I'm sure it's worthwhile. There are interviews with a diverse group of men who've had PC. I commend the NT Times for its prominent coverage [...]
“No Such Thing As a Bad Day” for Hamilton Jordan, Who Fought 4 Cancers (Including PC)
You may have heard that Hamilton Jordan, chief-of-staff to Jimmy Carter, died yesterday of cancer at the age of 63. You may not have known that Jordan battled four cancers, including lymphoma, prostate, skin cancer and mesothelioma. In spite of all this, Jordan wrote a book called "No Such Thing As A Bad Day" speaking about himself. Jordan [...]
Prostate Biopsies Present A Challenge
I always advise newly diagnosed men to get a second opinion on their biopsies from a very experienced person. That's because Gleason scores are notoriously inaccurate. For example, dear husband's biopsy slides were interpeted by three different pathologists and he was assigned three different Gleason scores. (First biopsy ordered by urologist, second done by hospital pathologist [...]
Man Sues Doctor for Missing PC Diagnosis
This story is about a man who is suing his doctor for not diagnosing his prostate cancer in time. I thought it unusual because I know a number of men who have been in this very same situation or worse, and they have not sued anybody. They basically just have had to live with the results [...]
Are We Humans Unbreakable?
An article in yesterday's "Science Times" caught my eye: A Conversation with Daniel Gilbert: The Smiling Professor, by Claudia Dreifus (Published: April 22, 2008.) A scholar who studies "the nature of happiness" at Harvard, Daniel Gilbert, found out and reported what I already knew: That most of us humans are unbreakable. Basically, we can adapt to anything. If [...]
Hospitals Rated in First-Ever Government Survey of Patients
Hospital ratings have been issued before by the government's Department of Health and Human Services. However, these having been based on objective factors such as mortality rates. This is the first time patients were asked for their opinions. In today's NY Times: Study Finds Many Patients Dissatisfied With Hospitals By ROBERT PEAR, Published: March 29, 2008 [...]
FREE Quality Online Course on “Evidence-Based Medicine”
Thanks to Kathy Meade who writes the Prostate Cancer Advocacy and Action blog for publicizing this. (See prostatecancerblog.org.) You can now sign up for a FREE, high-quality online course on "Evidence-Based Medicine" with materials put together by Johns Hopkins to help you navigate the confounding world of medicine. The course will help you understand research studies, statistics [...]
Now Playing: “How Prostate Cancer Made a Man of Me”
If you live in L.A. you might want to make reservations for this new play. It's not just topical but funny, according to this review. And if you're a cancer survivor, you get $5 off. (Now don't say membership in this "club" doesn't have its benefits!) Finally, kudos to Mr. Ackerman for going public with [...]