From Yahoo (posted today): Men and Women looking out for each other: * 43% of searches on Yahoo! Health for Prostate Cancer come from women * 33% of searches on Yahoo! Health for Breast Cancer come from men * 25% of searches on Yahoo! Health for Ovarian Cancer come from men * 38% of searches [...]
At the Society of Clinical Medicine’s 57th Annual Meeting there was a report of a clinical trial using a new molecular imaging agent could improve diagnosis of recurrent prostate cancer. […]
A new phase 3, registration trial has been announced by OncoGenex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. of its investigational drug custirsen sodium (OGX-011/TV-1011). The trial, for men with metastatic castrate resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) is referred to as the Prostate Cancer SATURN Trial. This randomized, controlled, trial will include approximately 50 cancer centers and is planned to enroll [...]
What are you going to do if you have had radiation therapy as a primary prostate cancer therapy and the cancer has reoccurred? If the disease has remained in the prostate gland some men are able to go back and have surgery, but the condition the gland has been left in post radiation makes it [...]
For years there remains this terrible hidden question, does an androgen blockade (ADT) provide any survival advantage to men with early advanced prostate cancer? We do know that ADT will have a significant negative impact on ones life, this is guaranteed. We do know that if we go on a blockade our life will change. [...]