According to the American Cancer Society 28,000 men will die in 2008 from prostate cancer. Prostate Cancer incidence rates are comparable to Breast Cancer rates. Yet, federal funding is significantly higher for Breast Cancer research than for Prostate Cancer. In 2008, there will be virtually the same number of new cases of Prostate Cancer (186,320) [...]
April 14 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology reported that Eric M. Horwitz, M.D., from Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia, and colleagues treated 1,554 prostate cancer patients with goserelin and flutamide (ADT) before and during radiation therapy. The men were then randomly assigned to receive no further ADT or 24 additional months of ADT. [...]
We are constantly being bombarded with information about nutrition and supplements. Sometimes an item will foster prostate cancer and sometimes we hear that the very same item will help prevent prostate cancer. Then there are those items that will initially prevent pc, but also encourage metastatic spread of an existing tumor. It is confusing and [...]
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I have talked about estate planning in many of my prior posts. One of the vehicles that I have recommended that you consider using is an Irrevocable Trust. There are two types of trusts; Irrevocable, one that is designed not to allow you to make changes and Revocable (sometimes referred to as a living trust), [...]