According to the American Cancer Society 28,000 men will die in 2008 from prostate cancer. Prostate Cancer incidence rates are comparable to Breast Cancer rates. Yet, federal funding is significantly higher for Breast Cancer research than for Prostate Cancer. In 2008, there will be virtually the same number of new cases of Prostate Cancer (186,320) [...]
Senator Hillary Clinton announced that she wants to increase breast cancer research funding by $300 million if elected president. Her campaign has said that finding a cure would be a top priority in her domestic policy. Catherine Brown, Clinton’s domestic policy director, said the extra funding would go toward researching a cure, discovering the causes [...]
The following was posted on: http://kittywampus.blogspot.com I have decided to reprint the post, with the author’s permission in its entirety. The author, Dr Patty Stokes (Sungold) is an instructor in Women’s Studies at Ohio University. - Petitioning against Prostate Cancer Most Americans probably know that the women among them face a 1 in 6 lifetime [...]
In the United Kingdom cancer patients who are terminal have the opportunity to take experimental drugs long before they would be allowed to in the United States. The UK Department of Health has authorized a network of 19 hospitals where patients who have no other hope of a cure can agree to take drugs which [...]
Increasingly, it seems as if I am hearing more and more about much younger guys being diagnosed. I don’t mean men who have a little bump in PSA and having gleason scores of six or less. I am talking about men who on diagnosis have prostate cancer that has left the capsule and already have [...]