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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