A faulty gene closely associated with breast cancer is also responsible for a particularly dangerous form of prostate cancer, research has confirmed. The British Journal of Cancer reported a study that a University of Toronto research team found prostate cancer patients carrying the BRCA2 gene lived on average for four years after diagnosis as opposed [...]
I want to change pace a little today and instead of directly discussing advanced prostate cancer, I am going to discuss an issue that has been coming up in our community, universal prostate cancer screening. We have all been embattled in an on going dispute, a disagreement about the value of general prostate cancer screening. [...]
When I returned from the conference (see yesterday’s post) I kept seeing notices and announcements from a new retrospective study out of John;s Hopkins that showed that men with prostate cancer tumors that recur after prostate cancer surgery are three times more likely to survive their disease long term if they undergo radiotherapy within two [...]
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 [...]
Juneteenth, which is June 19th every year, is an African American day of celebration that's gaining more and more recognition, observance, and influence?throughout the United States. You may wonder what?it is. I'm glad you asked. On this day in 1865 the slaves of Galveston Texas received word of the Emancipation Proclamation. Yes, that is?more than?two [...]