Dear President Obama, Prostate cancer will hit one in every six American men. This means that one in every six families will also be affected by prostate cancer. Prostate cancer is the second biggest cancer killer of American men. Sadly, many people don’t know that prostate cancer kills so many men. Prostate cancer is a [...]
Hormone therapy (ADT), using luteinizing hormone releasing hormone (LHRH) agonists or gonadatropin releasing hormone or GnRH agonists (Lupron, Zoladex, Trelstar, Viadur, Vantas, Eligard and Synarel ) have been known to have many side effects, some severe and potentially life threatening. Many of us believe that ADT is associated with cardiovascular disease and diabetes along with [...]
More from my explorations at the American Association of Cancer Researchers (AACR) conference in Washington, D.C. Abstract 5386 described a study using a thalidomide analogue called lenalidomide (Revlimid), in combination with Taxotere, which currently is the only approved drug for chemotherapy for advanced, metastatic castrate resistant prostate cancer. […]
Everyday set aside some time to ask yourself two important questions; 1- What am I living for? 2- What can I do or change and to make the world a better place? Joel T Nowak, MA, MSW
There were many themes running through the recent American Association of Cancer Researchers (AACR) conference that I just attended in Washington D.C. One significant theme running through the conference was the need to develop personalized medicine to be able to successfully control cancer. This leads us to the question, What is personalized medicine? [...]