Twitter's first Prostate Cancer Survivor Chat will be held on Thursday, July 16 from 4-5:30PM Join the discussion with hashtag #pcachat It will be facilitated by Malecare Prostate Cancer Support. Please follow me @prostatenews or http://www.twitter.com/prostatenews to stay in touch on this new event. The worlds first twitter cancer survivor support group was held, today, [...]
Over 15,000 people signed our community’s petition to Make Prostate Cancer a National Priority at . We were ready to deliver the petition to the new Secretary of HHS when Mr. Daschle withdrew from consideration. Now, we await the next Secretary and our new appointment to meet him/her. Until then, we continue to collect signatures. [...]
Self-advocacy can be a positive experience and often gives a person a sense of control in a time of uncertainty. Advocacy doesn't have to be time-consuming or difficult—it can be as simple as asking more questions at a doctor's appointment. Furthermore, being a self-advocate doesn't mean that you are responsible for your cancer care alone. [...]
Distress,anxiety and depression can be a normal part of the cancer experience. How do you know if the problem is serious and needs treatment? NCCN and ACS have developed a tool that will help patients identify when they need to get support from outside sources. * Introduction * What Is Distress? * How Do You [...]
How do scientists discover new genetic "biomarkers" to diagnose and treat disease early? The research community cites access to high quality biospecimens as the single most critical need for conducting today's generation of molecular or genomic experiments. Yet the field of biospecimens has lagged behind virtually every other area of medical research. Biobanks are storage [...]