Increasingly, we are finding pressure from the insurance world to demonstrate that the treatments we go through are the best available, meaning the most cost effective and yielding the best results. Research into prostate cancer is lagging and has not relied on evidence based results. Treatment decisions are often made on nonscientific consensus of the [...]
The FDA has announced its conditional approval, pending minor changes to the protocol, for a clinical trial for the treatment of recurrent prostate cancer with the Sonablate(R) 500 (HIFU) in men who have failed external beam radiation therapy. Dr. Herbert Lepor, Chairman of Urology at NYU School of Medicine will serve as the medical monitor [...]
I have been very negligent in not writing about my experience at the American Association of Cancer Researchers (AACR) annual meeting that I attended last month. I found that there was so much information, experiences and emotions that I came away feeling very awed and somewhat over whelmed by the experience. I am still [...]
One of the options for treatment your oncologist may recommend is for you to participate in a clinical trial. Clinical trials are carefully designed research studies that answer specific questions regarding the effectiveness and safety of new drugs, combinations of drugs, treatments, surgical techniques, or medical devices. Human volunteers with specific health conditions are studied [...]
From a unknown source: "Watch out! You nearly broad sided that car!" My father yelled at me. "Can't you do anything right?" Those words hurt worse than blows. I turned my head toward the elderly man in the seat beside me, daring me to challenge him. A lump rose in my throat as I averted [...]