How We Live

Morbidity and Treatment Regret in Men with Advanced Prostate Cancer

The question of today’s post is do men with advanced prostate cancer develop treatment regrets concurrent to their development of morbidity issues ( i.e.- myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure, angina, diabetes, stroke, circulation problems, inflammatory bowel disease, or amputation)? To answer this question researchers evaluated 795 men from the Comprehensive, Observational, Multicenter, Prostate Adenocarcinoma Registry [...]

By Malecare|2011-09-08T14:02:36-04:00September 8th, 2011|Advanced Prostate Cancer, General Information, How We Live, Research, Uncategorized, Understanding APC|1 Comment

Prostate Cancer Survivors Should be Prescribed Exercise

According to a report released recently by the UK charity Macmillan Cancer Support exercise can benefit cancer survivors, including prostate cancer survivors. This report disproves the theory that those suffering with cancer or who have beaten the disease should simply rest. Rest no more, exercise should be prescribed to those at all stages of cancer [...]

By Malecare|2017-10-19T10:52:10-04:00August 10th, 2011|Advanced Prostate Cancer, Drugs & Treatments, General Information, How We Live, Research, Uncategorized, Understanding APC|0 Comments

My Response to the New York Times About the Cost of Cancer Treatments

My recent Letter to the Editor of the New York Times in response to the Op-Ed piece decrying the cost of cancer treatments: Your recent editorial about the high cost of cancer drugs missed a number of very significant points which must be considered. Yes, newly developed cancer drugs are expensive, but when treatments like [...]

By Malecare|2011-07-11T12:23:03-04:00July 11th, 2011|Advanced Prostate Cancer, Advocacy, Drugs & Treatments, Financial, General Information, How We Live, Uncategorized|0 Comments

From A Recent Post I Made on the AdvancedProstateCancer Support Group

My personal belief is what does it matter since all of our goals really should be finding ways to live our lives to the fullest, gain all possible life extensions while also maintaining a decent quality of life. There are things that are just out of our personal control, those we just need to accept. [...]

By Malecare|2017-10-19T10:52:21-04:00July 3rd, 2011|Advanced Prostate Cancer, General Information, How We Live, Inspiration, Me, Uncategorized, Understanding APC|5 Comments

Malecare Responds to the New York Times About the High Costs of Advanced Prostate Cancer Treatments

Darryl, the Malecare Executive Director, posted an organizational response to yesterday's New York Times Article on the newly approved advanced prostate cancer drugs and their economic impact. I thought that I would share his insightful post with everyone. "We can easily price commodities and drugs to whatever the market will bare, but how do we [...]

By Malecare|2011-06-29T08:18:27-04:00June 29th, 2011|Advanced Prostate Cancer, Advocacy, Drugs & Treatments, General Information, How We Live, Politics of Cancer, Uncategorized, Understanding APC|0 Comments

Tell the World About Malecare and Improve Our Exposure

Dear Friends, If you love the work of Malecare Cancer Support, then tell the world! You may or may not realize it, but Malecare has grown to become America's largest men's cancer survivor support and advocacy national nonprofit. Malecare is a 13-year-old all volunteer organization, and our mission is to help men and their families [...]

By Malecare|2023-07-08T15:57:46-04:00June 27th, 2011|Advanced Prostate Cancer, Advocacy, General Information, How We Live, Politics of Cancer, Uncategorized|0 Comments

My Friend Fred

My very dear friend Fred who is a 20+ year prostate cancer warrior recorded this video. He has been on chemotherapy this past year. Fred is an activist who has been fighting on behalf of all of us. Thank you, Fred. I just thought I would share his video at: See my friend Fred Joel [...]

By Malecare|2020-02-04T10:37:26-05:00June 21st, 2011|Advanced Prostate Cancer, Chemo Therapy, General Information, How We Live, Personal Experiences, Uncategorized, Understanding APC|0 Comments

Have We Reached the Breaking Point with Our Insurance Carriers?

The new federal health care reform’s goal is to create a situation where all Americans will have health insurance, a goal that I support 100%. One of the problems that the regulations actually create is the simple fact they further empower the health insurance companies, not patients. We all have found out that much of [...]

By Malecare|2017-10-19T10:52:31-04:00June 6th, 2011|Advanced Prostate Cancer, Financial, General Information, How We Live, Uncategorized|0 Comments

To Treat or Not To Treat, That Is The Question

There are no right or wrong answers for men with prostate cancer when trying to decide what treatment to have, or even if they want to have treatment. One vital piece of information that is often left out of the equation is the chance of dying from prostate cancer if a man chooses not to [...]

By Malecare|2017-10-19T10:52:33-04:00May 30th, 2011|Advanced Prostate Cancer, Drugs & Treatments, General Information, How We Live, Screening, Uncategorized, Understanding APC|1 Comment

The Impact of the Setting on the Quality of Life for both Cancer Survivors and Caregivers When Death Comes

It is in the normal course of events that as our advanced prostate cancer progresses we will eventually end up dying from the disease. There will come a time when our doctors will no longer have any additional treatments or tricks up their sleeve, or we will just decide that we are done and wish [...]

By Malecare|2017-10-19T10:52:40-04:00May 20th, 2011|Advanced Prostate Cancer, Drugs & Treatments, General Information, How We Live, Our Caretakers, Politics of Cancer, Uncategorized, Understanding APC|2 Comments