Some Tricks To Help You Maintain Adequate Nutrition When On Chemotherapy

Having chemotherapy causes all sorts of strains and difficulties. One almost universal side effect from chemotherapy is the difficulty many of us face in getting enough nutrition. Nutrition comes from eating food yet many of us just don't feel hungry so eating is difficult. We lose our appetite, food tastes terrible and we battle nausea. [...]

The Benefit of Using Local Prostate Cancer Therapy for Men with Lymph Node Positive Disease

In an issue of ONCOLOGY, there was a review of the literature provides us with a comprehensive review of the limited literature on management of men with prostate cancer who have pelvic lymph node involvement but no known distant metastatic disease at diagnosis. Common folklore has been that these men, with limited pelvic lymph node [...]

PSA Tests Cut Metastatic Prostate Cancer Rates by Half

Screening for early prostate cancer detection may reduce the rate of newly diagnosed  metastatic disease. In a published study researchers evaluated the incidence of a men receiving a diagnosis of metastatic prostate cancer at their initial prostate cancer diagnosis using data extracted from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program database. Their analysis was [...]

The Impact of Co-morbidity on Outcomes in Men with Advanced Prostate Cancer Treated with Chemotherapy (Docetaxel)

Side effects, or what are known as co-morbidities, often discourage men who have metastatic prostate cancer from continuing with chemotherapy (docetaxel). The question often asked is there a relationship between having side effects and the ultimate efficacy of the chemotherapy? In other words does having side effects have an effect on overall survival? To answer [...]

ZYTIGA – Potential Dosing Error – IMPORTANT

Error in ZYTIGA® Beginning Your Treatment Brochure It has come to Malecare's attention that the dosing schedule for ZYTIGA® (abiraterone acetate) is incorrectly described in the ZYTIGA® Beginning Your Treatment brochure. Please destroy the ZYTIGA® Beginning Your Treatment brochure and the ZYTIGA® Resource Kit. It contains inaccurate dosing information. Please ask your doctor, today, to ensure that you understand the appropriate dosing for ZYTIGA®. The recommended [...]

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