As a follow up to yesterday's news about the positive results announced about Provenge, I have received a number of private emails asking questions about the treatment. I hope that the following will answer many of the questions people might still have about Provenge. • The other name for Provenge is sipuleucel-T. • Provenge is [...]
What great news has greeted us today. We can now hope that the FDA will quickly approve Provenge and we can get this sorely needed treatment ASAP. If Provenge gets approval from the FDA it will be the first cancer vaccine ever approved. Sadly it will be only the second approved treatment for prostate cancer! [...]
Vickie wrote both a very moving and very important email to the "circle" mailing list. After reading this post I contacted her to asked permission to repost it on this blog. I am very thankful to her for giving me permission to re-publish it and I am hopeful that she will continue to share her [...]
Today I posted the following on the ACOR Prostate listserv. It was in response to a series of emails that complained 1- That the organizations representing the prostate cancer community were at odds with each other and that there are too many prostate organizations. 2- That the prostate cancer community is disorganized and unable to [...]
The doctor has just scribbled a new prescription and now the pharmacist must translate it when they fill the order. What does all those chicken scrawls mean? Here is an example of what a prescription could look like- “drug name 250 mg Ac bid x 10 days?” To start, the first part of a prescription [...]