Earlier this week the wife and I took our little dude to orientation at the school he'll be attending this fall. Actually, it wasn't as much an orientation as it was a play date for kids?who didn't know each other. What the schoool did was place about five new kids, Dev included, into a class [...]
The Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF) is the world’s largest philanthropic source of support for prostate cancer research with the goal of discovering better treatments leading to a cure specifically for recurrent prostate cancer. I believe that the PCF is the only organization that has as its focus the treatment of and finding a curing for [...]
Changing life style is one of the most important recommendations that can be made to all men, especially those diagnosed with prostate cancer. One of the main ingredients to change when modifying your life style is to change your diet. There has been a lot written about optimum prostate cancer diets, one of the best [...]
Posted on the Prostate Problems Mailing list about two months ago was a notice from Dr. Richard Lam about a clinical trial in which his office, Prostate Oncology Specialists, will participate. What I found particularly interesting in this trial is that it was evaluating a potential new drug, abiraterone acetate, which could be used after [...]
The use of ADT is the treatment of choice for advanced, metastatic prostate cancer as long as the cancer is responsive to the blockade. The theory goes that the suppression of circulating testosterone, which fuels prostate-cancer growth, whether by surgical castration (orchiectomy) or castration with testosterone-blocking drugs slows down the progression of the prostate cancer. [...]