I know, it isn’t manly to cry and it certainly isn’t manly to admit that you cry. But, you know what, I don’t care. I do have reasons to cry and I don’t care how you respond because crying does help me feel better. OK, I admit it, I’ve been crying a lot recently, but [...]
As we come to another Fathers Day I do have to acknowledge that not all of us will simply celebrate or commemorate this day in a joyous manner, some of us will grieve. Today may be a day of celebrations, family visits and barbeques, but for many of us it will be a sorrowful, bittersweet, [...]
We constantly discuss diet and its implications on prostate cancer on both our on-line and face-to-face support groups. As an individual who does enjoy a steak I have made great strides in significantly restraining myself and greatly limit my consumption of red meat. However, I often wonder if all the talk about being a vegetarian [...]
Prostate cancer and diet has been strongly link for a while. We are told to eat a Mediterranean style diet or to become a vegetarian. Being over weight has been strongly linked to having a prostate cancer recurrence. This week's online edition of the journal Cancer Prevention Research states that cutting back on carbohydrates appears [...]
Urinary incontinence is a common problem suffered by many of us post both surgery and radiation therapy for prostate cancer. The degree of incontinence varies from no problem all the way to having no control of the urinary function. Men having surgery find that as time progresses post treatment, they do regain levels of urinary [...]