Not only is having cancer a life changing experience, but it also is a life-long event. Once you have been diagnosed, even if you think that you are cured, you remain a cancer survivor until you die. Cancer is never cured it is only controlled. We all are constantly subject to having a recurrence and [...]
For those of us who believed that we are alone in the search for a prostate cancer vaccine for advanced prostate cancer, the good news is that we are not. The Vladimir Ilich Lenin hospital, located in Cuba, has announced that they will shortly begin the second phase of the clinical trial of a vaccine [...]
Last Friday's post included information about the recent appointment of Dr. Frank M. Torti as the Acting Director of the FDA. Dr. Torti has invited public comments about the future direction of the FDA. As a representative of Malecare, I have provided specific feedback to Dr. Torti. The following post includes my comments to him. [...]
Dr. Frank M. Torti, M.D., MPH has just been appointed as the Acting Commissioner of Food and Drugs (FDA). He has been a prominent clinician, scientist and researcher in molecular oncology. Until his appointment at the FDA as Principal Deputy Commissioner and first Chief Scientist in April 2008, Dr. Torti had served the as Charles [...]
Are you planning on becoming pregnant? If not, researchers from the Medical Oncology Branch of the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health have reported a study successfully using thalidomide to slow down the progression of advanced prostate cancer. Thalidomide is a drug that was first synthesized in 1954 to be used as a sedative. [...]