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A Clinical Trial : Ixabepilone, Mitoxantrone, and Prednisone in Treating Patients with Metastatic Prostate Cancer That Did Not Respond to Hormone Therapy and Chemotherapy

I was recently reviewing current clinical trials and came across this one for men who have failed chemotherapy, what many of us view as the final treatment for advanced prostate cancer. It provides a potential opportunity to combine two different therapy agents (one old, mitoxantrone; one relatively new, ixabepilone). Both of these chemicals are known [...]

By Malecare|2020-02-04T10:11:12-05:00February 2nd, 2009|Advanced Prostate Cancer, Chemo Therapy, Chemo Therapy Failure, Clinical Trials, Clinical Trials, Uncategorized|7 Comments

An NCI Clinical Trail After Chemotherapy Has Failed

What do advanced prostate cancer survivors do once we fail chemotherapy? At this time there are no FDA approved next steps other than to take some time off and pray that restarting chemotherapy will again help us. To put in another way, we wait to die. There is a huge need to find additional strategies [...]

By Malecare|2020-02-04T10:39:41-05:00January 8th, 2009|Advanced Prostate Cancer, Chemo Therapy, Chemo Therapy Failure, Clinical Trials, Clinical Trials, Uncategorized|0 Comments

A Quick Up-date From Scott Goodwin

This morning Scott reported to me that his PSA has gone down to 0.9. Go Scott, this is great news. Follow all of Scott's reports about his experience with chemotherapy by clicking on the category "Scott Godwin-Chemotherapy" Joel T Nowak MA, MSW

By Malecare|2009-01-05T11:38:57-05:00January 5th, 2009|Advanced Prostate Cancer, Personal Experiences, Scott Godwin - Chemotherapy, Uncategorized, Understanding APC|0 Comments

Living Day to Day (Living by PSA)- An Installment of Scott Goodwin’s Personal Experience with Chemotherapy

I completed my third treatment on Christmas Eve. I felt pretty good through the holiday weekend but started to fade a little by Sunday. The major side effect at this point is fatigue. As most of you know taking a nap doesn't always help, but still feels good. Despite the treatment we are on, we [...]

By Malecare|2008-12-30T09:51:36-05:00December 30th, 2008|Advanced Prostate Cancer, Chemo Therapy, How We Live, Personal Experiences, Scott Godwin - Chemotherapy, Uncategorized, Understanding APC|0 Comments

Scott Goodman Shares his Fourth Update on his Chemotherapy Journey

I had my second chemo treatment last week (Thursday) and it went so much faster with the port-a-cath (see the December 1, 2008 post “Injection Site Issues and Technology” for an explanation of a port-a-cath). As most of us who are traveling this trail will know, our veins take a regular beating from all of [...]

By Malecare|2017-10-19T10:56:32-04:00December 10th, 2008|Advanced Prostate Cancer, Chemo Therapy, Drugs & Treatments, How We Live, Personal Experiences, Scott Godwin - Chemotherapy, Uncategorized, Understanding APC|0 Comments