I am sorry that I have not posted anything recently, but I have just returned from Atlanta Georgia where I was an invited guest at a conference sponsored by the American Cancer Society, The Lance Armstrong Foundation and the National Cancer Institute. The conference was a biannual event focused on survivor research. The sponsors of [...]
The Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF) is the world’s largest philanthropic source of support for prostate cancer research with the goal of discovering better treatments leading to a cure specifically for recurrent prostate cancer. I believe that the PCF is the only organization that has as its focus the treatment of and finding a curing for [...]
Increasingly, we are finding pressure from the insurance world to demonstrate that the treatments we go through are the best available, meaning the most cost effective and yielding the best results. Research into prostate cancer is lagging and has not relied on evidence based results. Treatment decisions are often made on nonscientific consensus of the [...]
At the recent American Association of Cancer Researchers (AACR,) there was a shocking poster presentation that demonstrated that mice that exercised experienced implanted prostate cancer tumor grow that was twice as fast than did those mice who were restricted from exercising! The study was conducted by the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center (DCCC) and the Duke [...]
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 [...]