I know, we all have our prostate cancer story where we are told how lucky we are that we have prostate cancer. The conversation goes on something like, “Oh you are so lucky, you have the GOOD cancer, you should be so thankful.” Then it is often followed up by something like, “My (father) (brother) [...]
The common question when we are diagnosed with prostate cancer is how long do I have to live? The exact same question is asked again when we discover that we have had a prostate cancer recurrence. Times have changed and so has our potential life span. In the late 1980s and early 1990s men diagnosed [...]
Findings from the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal and Ovarian (PLCO) screening trial indicate that the strongest predictors of prostate cancer-specific mortality include Gleason 7, body mass index >30, African-American race, PSA level, stage, and high co-morbidity score. Understanding how non-tumor factors affect prostate cancer-specific mortality will help identify those men who may benefit from screening and [...]
Breast cancer in men is rare, but men do develop it. Male breast cancer accounts for less than 1% of all breast cancer cases. Other than the incidence rate, male breast cancer is similar to breast cancer in women. […]
Finasteride, which remains a controversial drug in the treatment of men with advanced prostate cancer, prolongs the time of off-treatment in men with advanced prostate cancer when they are using intermittent androgen suppression therapy (IAD). One of the questions not yet understood is whether this results from a true increase in prostate-specific antigen (PSA) doubling [...]