Disease Progression

An Easier, Cheaper and More Comfortable Way To Take Zytiga

Rather than taking – and paying – for the full Zytiga dose on an empty stomach, ask your doctor if you could get the same effect from taking just one fourth of your Zytiga dose while enjoying a low-fat or high-fat breakfast. A small phase two study of 36 prostate cancer patients who took 250 [...]

By |2020-02-04T08:48:33-05:00February 14th, 2017|abiraterone acetate, Advanced Prostate Cancer, Chemotherapy, Disease Progression, Drugs & Treatments, Uncategorized, Zytiga|1 Comment
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Men Who Fail Primary Radiation Can Have Good Results After Salvage Surgery

Men who have decided to have radiation as their first (primary) treatment for prostate cancer have a one-third chance of recurrence. Some of those men have salvage radical prostatectomy (SRP)  to fight the recurrence.  A study shows this might be a good idea. Antoni Vilaseca, MD, etal from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, studied 251 men [...]

By |2020-02-04T10:39:33-05:00December 27th, 2016|Advanced Prostate Cancer, Disease Progression, Drugs & Treatments, Quality of Life,