CAM Supplements – Do They Work for Men with Advanced Prostate Cancer?

Many of us use supplements as either complementary or alternative medicines (CAMS) to treat our prostate cancer as well as advanced prostate cancer. If we interview a selection of men and ask what supplements they take there are a number of items we take that are fairly universal among us. They include pomegranate extract, green [...]

Elective Radiation of Pelvic Lymph Nodes During Salvage Radiotherapy Post Prostatectomy – Does It Work?

When facing a post prostatectomy biochemical failure (PSA only failure) the best way to treat is still not known. Preliminary data from Johns Hopkins [1] and Duke Universities[2] have recently provided some of the earliest evidence that salvage radiotherapy may prolong overall survival versus delay of intervention until time of symptomatic progression. Despite [...]

Advanced Prostate Cancer Survivors On Androgen Deprivation Therapy Develop Persistent Changes in Immune Responses

I stumbled upon an abstract published at the end of February 2010 that raised a number of questions about hormone therapy (ADT) and its effect on the immune system. Coming out of the starting gate I assumed that ADT would adversely affect the immune system making us prone to falling victim to all sort of [...]

Genetic Predictors Of Fatigue For Men with Advanced Prostate Cancer Receiving Androgen Deprivation Therapy

The University of South Florida along with Moffitt Cancer Center has published a study in the October issue of Brain, Behavior, and Immunity which found that men with advanced prostate cancer who are on androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) are more likely to suffer from general fatigue if they also have single nucleotide polymorphisms in three [...]

Dealing With and Beating Chemobrain – For Men Fighting Advanced Prostate Cancer

It is very common, men with advanced prostate cancer find that they are subject to confusion and memory loss; they experience a general dumbing down of their brain facilities. The most common culprits causing this are hormone therapy (ADT) and chemotherapy treatments. At this time we don’t have any great magic bullets to treat this [...]

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