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The PREVAIL Trial Shows That Enzalutamide Not Only Increases Overall Survival Over Placebo, It Also Delays the Onset Of The First Skeletal Event

Analysis of the PREVAIL Trial showed that Enzalutamide (Xtandi) significantly increased overall survival and radiographic progression-free survival compared with placebo in men with prostate cancer who were asymptomatic and minimally symptomatic, chemotherapy-naive and who had metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). Now, an additional analysis of the data has shown the effect enzalutamide also has on [...]

By Malecare|2020-02-04T11:37:24-05:00May 22nd, 2015|Advanced Prostate Cancer, Bones and Prostate Cancer, Clinical Trials, enzalutamide, Quality of Life, survival, Uncategorized, Xtandi|0 Comments

AdVance Transobturator Male Sling for Post-Prostatectomy Incontinence – A Retrospective Study of Its Efficacy *

One of the more difficult problems faced by some men treated with surgery as their primary treatment modality is post-prostatectomy incontinence (PPI). PPI can affect the quality of life for both men successfully treated as well as those who go on and eventually develop advanced prostate cancer. One of the more common, but last efforts [...]

By Malecare|2017-10-19T10:47:29-04:00March 25th, 2015|Advanced Prostate Cancer, Drugs & Treatments, General Information, How We Live, Incontinence, Male Sling, Quality of Life, Uncategorized|0 Comments

On the Horizon – Bipolar Androgen Therapy

A Small study suggests that alternating testosterone levels may make hormonal therapy work longer A recent very small study was published that might lend a new light on hormone therapy for advanced prostate cancer, Bipolar ADT. This study suggests that a new treatment strategy might be effective where men alternate between low and high levels [...]

By Malecare|2017-10-19T10:47:36-04:00January 12th, 2015|ADT, Advanced Prostate Cancer, Clinical Trials, Clinical Trials, Drugs & Treatments, Hormone Therapy, PSA, Quality of Life, Research, Uncategorized|2 Comments

How Doctors Can Easily Improve Their Communication with Their Patients

Doctors are not trained to communicate with patients. Now, with the onset of electronic medical records this problem has become worse. Many of them hardly even look their patient in the eyes; instead their faces are often buried in the computer screen and not on us. Since they don’t really know us, they stumble around, [...]

By Malecare|2017-10-19T10:47:38-04:00December 12th, 2014|Advanced Prostate Cancer, Advocacy, How We Live, Politics of Cancer, Quality of Life, survivorship, Uncategorized|0 Comments

Efficacy of Intermittent ADT with Degarelix, the New Gonadotrophin Releasing Hormone (GnRH) Antagonist

There has been much conversation surrounding the use of intermittent androgen deprivation (IAD) as opposed to continuous androgen deprivation (CAD) in men with prostate cancer who need hormone therapy (ADT). The question that has been at issue is if either method is superior to the other. There have been studies that have concluded that they [...]

By Malecare|2020-02-04T08:42:32-05:00December 5th, 2014|ADT, Advanced Prostate Cancer, Drugs & Treatments, General Information, Hormone Therapy, Quality of Life, Research, Uncategorized|2 Comments