Since so many men are using medications off-label this program should be of interest to prostate cancer advocates. About half of the use of anticancer chemotherapy drugs is for “off-label” indications – uses not listed on the FDA-approved label. Public and private payers typically cover off-label indications for anticancer drugs if they are listed in [...]
Many of us think that chemotherapy for prostate cancer only involves the use of Taxotere. Just for the sake of accuracy, I want to clarify that almost every drug we take to treat prostate cancer is chemotherapy. Chemotherapy drugs are the drugs that are designed to kill cells. All of the drugs used as a [...]
In the United Kingdom cancer patients who are terminal have the opportunity to take experimental drugs long before they would be allowed to in the United States. The UK Department of Health has authorized a network of 19 hospitals where patients who have no other hope of a cure can agree to take drugs which [...]
I was tagged by my homie Becky for an "8 things you didn't know about me" meme. At this point many of you know more about me than my own mother, but I still have some nuggets to share. So I might as well give up eight now. 1. The title of this post is [...]
Increasingly, it seems as if I am hearing more and more about much younger guys being diagnosed. I don’t mean men who have a little bump in PSA and having gleason scores of six or less. I am talking about men who on diagnosis have prostate cancer that has left the capsule and already have [...]