My wife Wendy and I wrote the following as a response to a Father's Day article in the New York Times. Gina Kolata published a front page article in today’s (Sunday, 15 June 2008) New York Times entitled “New Take on a Prostate Drug, and a New Debate.” The article is about the use of [...]
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 [...]
I am a firm believer in survivors helping other men deal with their prostate cancer, however there are areas of caution. What treatment should I move on to; hormone blockade; Keto or chemotherapy. Should I participate in a clinical trial? What’s best for me? It seems that there is a lot of advice out there, [...]
I recently read about a woman on a breast cancer sight who was getting ready to publish a list of "things I would liked to have known about prior to my treatment." I think that a similar list could be valuable to men newly diagnosed and newly recurrent. I would like to publish two lists, [...]
Once again, the prostate cancer community has been rocked by startling and conflicting news. According to a research study from The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine androgen deprivation therapy (hormone blockade- ADT) may encourage prostate cancer cells to produce Nestin, a protein that makes prostate cancer cells more likely to spread through out the body! [...]