So how long does it usually take for men undergoing hormone therapy (ADT) to progress from being hormone dependent to hormone independent? Clearly, we should always remember that this is a very individual, case-by-case time. However, there was a recent time analysis published in the February 2009 edition of Urology. These researchers found that after [...]
When diagnosed I was told that I had a Gleason score of 7, calculated by adding the first number, a descriptor of the most prevalent cancer cells in the biopsy sample, to the second number, a descriptor for the second most prevalent cancer cells. In my case the actual Gleason score was 4+3 or a [...]
Why do we need an Office of Men’s Health and why do we need more emphasize put on men’s health awareness? Studies like this one in the UK answer these simple questions: A recent study published this week by the National Cancer Intelligence Network (NCIN) and Cancer Research UK, concluded that men are almost 40 [...]
Prostate cancer awareness might be ready to take a major step in the United Kingdom (UK) and we all can help it along. I was sent an interesting web page by my wife Wendy about a battle in the advertising agency world in London. A prostate cancer awareness advertisement has been submitted as a "wild [...]
The fairness of increasing cancer research funding in FY2010 comes into question during House and Senate hearings. See my post of May 23, 2009: Senator Harkin and the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Hold Hearings on the Budget Allocations to the NCI for Cancer Research Two leading appropriators in [...]