Faster Cures is a novel organization created by the financier Michael Milken, who also founded the Prostate Cancer Foundation. Faster Cures' goal is to find new ways to bring drugs to market faster -- the average is 17 years from conception to the time the drug hits the market. Faster Cures sends me a newsletter, and in this issue, they [...]
The problem of overtreatment of prostate cancer is well-known. Many invasive, aggressive treatments are performed on men whose cancer would never pose a threat to their lives anyway. And they are often left with nasty side effects, physical and emotional. So a well-known PC pathologist, Dr. Jonathan Oppenheimer, proposes a solution: Let's call the low-grade tumors [...]
I just saw that Dana Jennings, who writes a blog about his prostate cancer for the NYT, is discussing language and cancer. So I recycled this essay I wrote some time back. It amazes me that doctors still use the word biochemical failure to refer to a recurrence of prostate cancer. A doctor told me, [...]
This is a follow-up to the previous posting. Please read that first. Following is an editorial by Dr. Michael Blute of the Mayo Clinic urology faculty. He is commenting on a study by Dr. Hu which compared laparascopic and open surgery. I am going to cite the entire article almost verbatim and I have emphasized parts that I [...]
A lot of you may be currently using injectible meds such as Caverject, Trimix or Bimix for ED. Or you will be starting the treatment soon. Yesterday a man asked me for some information about injection therapy, so I'm going to share with all of you what I sent to him. It might be useful to others. I [...]