I have been talking about the need to increase the funding levels for the Department of Defense (DOD) Peer Review Prostate Cancer Research Program (PCRP) for a long period. This program has proven itself to be the single most valuable government funded prostate cancer research program. The program is designed to fund research projects that [...]
What I have learned from cancer: I learned that I will be have a million tomorrows, so I need to find a way not to waste any of them I may be fortunate to have. I learned that I can’t control everything that happens to me, but I need to learn to control those things [...]
A lot has been written about the need to identify better biomarkers to both assist in the initial diagnosis of prostate cancer and then to help determine which cancers are potentially dangerous from those that are actually indolent. Finding these markers is vital, I too have written about the great need for them. However, in [...]
There is a new web site that will make finding a clinical trial specific for prostate cancer even easier. Not only can you search for trials, but now you can locate the trials by location (distance from your home zip code). Go to: https://web.archive.org/web/20170512051333/http://cancertrials4prostate.org/ or look for the link in the resource section of this [...]
Taking bisphosphonates as a part of our prostate cancer treatment puts all of us in direct risk of developing osteoporosis. Bisphosphonates have been found to place us in a high-risk state for developing osteonecrosis of the jaws (rotting of the jaw bones). It is now possible to use X-rays to detect "ghost sockets" in the [...]