Despite the fact that we have already had a radical prostatectomy, at some point in time one third of us will receive that dreaded telephone call from our doctor.... our PSA has reappeared! Once again, we start the process of climbing into the tube for an MRI, we have a bone scan and of course [...]
PSA-DT, also known as PSA Doubling Time or PSA Velocity is the time it takes for a PSA value to double (i.e. 2 to 4, 4 to 8, 8 to 16). In the situation when a PSA reappears after a radical prostatectomy the PSA-DT serves as a predictor of future metastatic disease. Okotie et al [...]
Yesterday Russell Simmons came out publicly in support of banning the words h-word, b-word and n-word from hip-hop music. The black community, in my opinion, has much bigger things to worry about. Removing three words from rap music will not solve poverty, crime, lack of education, lack of financial parity, self hate, prisons overpoulated with [...]
PSA Rising has just posted transcripts of the patient advocates testimony which was delivered to the FDA's Advisory Committee at the recent Provenge hearing. I have written extensively about the hearing and the role of patient advocates at this hearing in an earlier post. For anyone interested, six of the patient advocates testimony, including my [...]
I didn't know I had cabin fever until today. I woke up early, showered, dressed and drove to my barbershop in Brooklyn, some 45 minutes away. My barbershop is like a doctor's office in the the sense that if you aren't the first one there, you have to wait a loooong time to be seen. [...]