Quality of Death. A new term we are introducing to the prostate cancer discussion. Will I die in pain, agony or in some semblance of peace? Do I want to be stupefied by opioids during my last days, hours and minutes? Do I want to enter a coma like state? Would I like to [...]
Being diagnosed with cancer is tough. Being diagnosed with cancer is often coupled with clinically meaningful levels of mental or emotional distress. Researchers in Germany have found that during the prior four weeks nearly a third of more than 2,100 cancer survivors interviewed at inpatient and outpatient care centers experienced mental or emotional distress that [...]
The following was posted on the Malecare Advanced Prostate Cancer Health Unlocked online support group. I have received permission to reprint it here because it might be helpful to some of you. FYI- Provenge is a cancer vaccine that helps to mobilize your own immune system to your prostate cancer. It is currently only [...]
Advanced prostate cancer will eventually end, barring another cause of death, with the demise of the individual survivor. Knowing that you suffer from a terminal illness is hard, it is hard on the family and it is hard on the individual. Many of us don’t think about it, but it is also hard for many [...]
Dr. Steve Freedland, from Cedar Sinai conducted a controlled, randomized clinical study that evaluated the efficacy of an extremely low carbohydrate diet on the side effects of hormone therapy (ADT). The study showed that an extreme diet has a positive impact on many of the side negative effects as well as causing significant weight loss [...]