I have invited Dr. Arnon Krongrad, M.D. to submit an occasional post. He is a pioneer of the Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy and currently practices at the Krongrad Institute in Aventura Florida. This post on preventing prostate cancer is a little late for those of us who have recurrent, advanced disease, but it isn’t to late [...]
The American Cancer Society has released its revised statistical projections for prostate cancer diagnoses and deaths in the United States for the upcoming year of 2008. The projection calls for 186,320 men to be diagnosed and 28,660 to die from the disease. These numbers do not take into account the many men who die from [...]
Dan Fogelberg, the singer and songwriter whose hits “Leader of the Band” and “Same Old Lang Syne” helped define the soft-rock era, died December 16th at his home in Maine after battling prostate cancer. He was 56. A message from Jean Fogelberg In February of 2005, Dan went to Colorado for a few weeks to [...]
Both prostate cancer patients and their spouses benefit from family intervention counseling, but surprisingly spouses benefit more then the patients, this according to an article published in the December issue of Cancer! Learning about the diagnosis and then the treatment itself often has very negative effects on both the patient and the spouse. Knowing and [...]
The American Cancer Society has undertaken a unique effort to help cancer patients who have lost or are in danger of losing their health care coverage – the Health Insurance Assistance Service (HIAS). Along with the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute, The Society is sponsoring a free resource that connects cancer patients with health insurance [...]