Many of us go off to the grocery store and willing spend much more money for organically grown food thinking that the nutritional value of this food will be better. A recent review of the literature calls this assumption into question. The study published July 29 in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition says there [...]
The word “cancer” still makes most people run for cover and shrink in terror, despite the fact that there are so many cancer survivors. This word cancer remains so emotionally laden that many of the most compassionate people I know still struggle not to overtly shrink and hide from us survivors. People feel awkward and [...]
Scott Goodwin has been a guest writer on this blog. He has been sharing his experiences and feelings as he continues his journey on chemotherapy. Scott is not doing as well as we all had hoped. His final paragraph says "When does the time come when a man will stop all treatments and try to [...]
There was an interesting study done at the Department of Primary Care, Höglandssjukhuset, Nässjö, Sweden and the Department of Urology, Sahlgrenska University Hospital/SU Sahlgrenska, Gothenburg, Sweden. The study attempted to understand how men who are newly diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer are affected by fatigue before the side effects of any treatment has an impact [...]
Men with metastatic hormone-refractory prostate cancer (mHRPC) who become docetaxel-refractory (no longer responsive to docetaxel therapy have no approved second line chemotherapy available. One could say that they have reached the proverbial brick wall. Where to go and what to do is not at all clear. Most of us do not want to just roll [...]