Immunotherapy has a major and expanding role in the treatment of cancer, including advanced prostate cancer. Over time there have been a number of naysayers as the immunotherapy Provenge has played the role whipping boy by critics. The common criticism leveled at Provenge can be summed up simply, “It doesn’t work.” The plain truth is [...]
Somehow I have been negligent and not let people know that I have written and posted a major update of my “Guide to Advanced Prostate Cancer.” As in the past, it is available as a free download from the Malecare web site. Helping me to update the book was prostate cancer survivor Craig Pynn and [...]
Malecare announces the addition of our latest and informative teleconference about Immunotherapy and Advanced Prostate Cancer. Joining me in the conference is Dr. Nicholas J. Vogelzang, M.D., a medical oncologist with the Comprehensive Cancer Centers of Nevada (CCCN) and serves as chair and site research leader, and as medical director of the Developmental Therapeutics Committee and Member [...]
On March 4th I wrote a post which included a suggestion that combining Provenge and the clinical trial of Prostvac-VF might provide an interesting one-two punch against advanced prostate cancer. In the post I suggested that it could be interesting to have Provenge and then move immediately on to Prostvac. This was an error, I [...]
Confusion, confusion and more confusion, that is how I would describe the current decision making process for a man with prostate cancer that has become newly castrate resistant. Just a few years ago the decision tree was clear, castrate resistant, immediately on to chemotherapy with docetaxel. Today, in this treatment space, we have a number [...]