At the National Cancer Advisory Board's (NCAB) February 5 meeting, NCI Director Dr. John Niederhuber briefed committee members on the Institute's operating budget for fiscal year (FY) 2008. The $4.8 billion appropriation is essentially flat compared with FY 2007. Because of the rate of inflation, this will require NCI leaders to initiate 3-percent reductions across [...]
In 1971 the United States declared war on cancer. Although there have been some improvements in treatments and screening the actual death rates for many cancers has not significantly been impacted. Considering the amount of money that has been spent and the amount of years that has passed since we declared war, we have not [...]
Both prostate cancer patients and their spouses benefit from family intervention counseling, but surprisingly spouses benefit more then the patients, this according to an article published in the December issue of Cancer! Learning about the diagnosis and then the treatment itself often has very negative effects on both the patient and the spouse. Knowing and [...]
According to a recent presentation by Mitchell C. Benson, MD*, at the 32nd Winter Urologic Forum - State-of-the-Art in Urology - January 25-29, 2008 - Vail, Colorado, USA most men who have failed a local, primary therapy and then experience a rising PSA will find that their follow-up therapy will most probably consist of anti-androgen [...]
The wife and I were discussing this earlier. She said this is getting out of hand. I agree with her. I thought it was worth mentioning... Over the last couple of years there has been a proliferation of rap songs featuring "that white girl," which is slang for the highly addictive drug cocaine. I will [...]