Taking care of a loved one can be a rewarding but stressful experience. You may feel that you are the best equipped to handle the situation, or financial concerns may have prodded you unwittingly into the caregiver role. No matter how prepared you may be for the job, caregiver stress can plague anyone. This [...]
Being told that you have prostate cancer may be one of the most stressful events that occur in your lifetime. After a cancer diagnosis, you may be overwhelmed, worried about what happens next, or thinking about its impact on your life. The many emotions that follow a prostate cancer diagnosis make a major impression [...]
Prostate cancer patients struggle to ask all of their questions. Men often leave their doctor's offices with one or more unanswered question...."I forgot to ask." Even with lists of questions written out in advance, patients skip over one or more questions or simply fail to give voice to things that trouble them the [...]
Non-metastatic Castrate Resistant prostate cancer patients take note. The Phase 3 PROSPER trial in patients with non-metastatic (M0) Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer (CRPC) showed that the use of XTANDI® (enzalutamide) plus androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) significantly reduced the risk of developing metastases or death by 71 percent compared to ADT alone. It will be a [...]
Present. It's where we live. Where we exist. Moment to moment. Not measured by the ticking of the clock. Only measured if we live in the moment...exist, now. Be here, now. We practice for many moments, hours, days, years and then we arrive here, now, in the present. And then, cancer arrives in our [...]