The Really Big Question We all Ask, Will I Die from Prostate Cancer?

Because of the large amount of prostate cancer screening there has been a major shift in initial staging in prostate cancer  in western countries, with the incidence of metastases at diagnosis decreasing from over 50% in the 1970s to currently less than 10%.  Despite this very significant drop in late stage diagnoses prostate cancer is [...]

Stress and Survival in Prostate Cancer – Looking at a Trial Using Muscle Relaxation and Guided Imagery in Anxiety Reducing Interventions in Prostate and Breast Cancer Chemotherapy

FROM this blog on September 9, 2015 ) According to Michael Jan, MD, and his collaborators at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden those of us who are experiencing high levels of stress need to be cautious. Their findings boil down to the fact that our stress could allow our prostate cancer to kill us. [...]

Long-Term Survival And Good QOL Is Possible in Prostate Cancer With Bone Mets

The development of bone metastases is often been viewed as having significant negative implications for long term survival in men with metastatic castrate resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). It is generally believed that bone metastases prognosticates a negative impact on both their quality of life and on survival. Contradicting this commonly held belief has been some [...]

Is Provenge for you?

Provenge, despite its demonstrated survival advantage, continues to be knocked as a viable treatment for men with castrate-resistant prostate cancer. What is Provenge? Provenge is immunotherapy for men with metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer. In other words, Provenge might help men live longer after their cancer has spread outside of the prostate and are no [...]

The Development of A Novel Blood Biomarker for Detecting AR-V7 and Resistance to Zytiga and Xtandi

At the current AUA Annual Meeting going on in New Orleans, there was a presentation given by Haitao Zhang and colleagues. They described their work developing a novel blood-based assay (test) for detecting androgen receptor (AR) splice variants in men with advanced prostate cancer. Their work relies on the premise that AR-V7 expression underlies resistance [...]

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