Please take a few minutes to help elevate OUR prostate cancer nonprofit, Malecare. As you know, Malecare started and facilitate this blog as part of our program addressing the needs of men living with advanced prostate cancer. Though Malecare is known as our country's leading gay men's cancer support group nonprofit, we are committed to [...]
Men with advanced prostate cancer who develop an adrenal tumor will usually undergo laparoscopic adrenalectomy (removal of the adrenal gland) as a treatment method. Just like with prostate surgery. in some situations surgery might not be the best alternative for an individual man. An individual case was recently completed at the Department of Renal and [...]
Senator Arlen Specter (D-PA) introduced S. 914, the Cures Acceleration Network and National Institutes of Health Reauthorization Act of 2009. The bill has three main components: 1. Establishes a new, independent federal agency, to be known as the “Cures Acceleration Network” (CAN), which would award grants and contracts to accelerate the development of cures and [...]
A presentation at the ASCO conference in Florida reconfirmed the fact that increased levels of C-reactive protein (CRP) is associated with adverse outcomes (earlier death) in men with castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) treated with docetaxel (taxotere). The study analyzed the baseline serum samples from 119 castrate resistant (CRPC) men enrolled in 6 phase I or [...]
As we come to another Fathers Day I do have to acknowledge that not all of us will simply celebrate or commemorate this day in a joyous manner, some of us will grieve. Today may be a day of celebrations, family visits and barbeques, but for many of us it will be a sorrowful, bittersweet, [...]