Today is Fathers Day. It's our day. Today, our family celebrates who we are and more importantly that we are still alive and with them. I celebrate that not only have I been the best father that I knew how to be, but also I celebrate that I am still here so that I can [...]
Father's Day. A day when many of us dads are reminded of our second-class status compared to moms. However, in keeping with my push toward positivity I'm not going to expound on that idea, or mention any of the following in this post: How my son's school did not have a Father's Day show, though [...]
"and when we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard nor welcomed but when we are silent we are still afraid. So it is better to speak remembering we were never meant to survive" Audre Lorde Joel T Nowak MA, MSW
There is great news for those of us who are on a hormone blockade. The latest reported from the 2007 meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology says that Intermittent Androgen Suppression (IAS) is just as effective as continuous therapy. The study cited was a randomized multi-center trial with men diagnosed with advanced prostate [...]
A recent study in Iceland compared survival and disease progression in prostate cancer patients with the Icelandic BRCA2 999del5 founder mutation and those without the mutation. The study evaluated a pool of men with prostate cancer who were related to women who had breast cancer. They found that the gene mutation, BRCA2 999del5 founder mutation, [...]