The following statement about the recent controversy regarding PSA testing was issued this morning by the thirteen organizations , including Malecare A JOINT STATEMENT FROM AMERICA’S PROSTATE CANCER ADVOCACY, EDUCATION, AND SUPPORT ORGANIZATIONS Since 1993, when the PLCO trial was started, we have awaited the results of this trial with eager anticipation, as have others. [...]
Over the last few days the media has been full of debate about the most recent, contradictory studies that have been released about the efficacy of the PSA as a diagnostic tool for prostate cancer. Normally, I would not write about this issue in this blog since those of us with recurrences and advanced prostate [...]
The FDA has issued an emergency warning that certain adhesive patches (transdermal patches) that deliver medication through the skin have been found to be a risk to patients safety while they undergo a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). If these problem patches are affixed to the skin while actually undergoing the scan they can cause skin [...]
I love my chocolate bars and of course there is nothing better tin the world than a chocolate blackout cake. Sugar is great, I think that sugar is la gift from god. I can not stand it when I am told that I have to stop eating all the things I love, including things with [...]
A small phase III, randomized, double blind, placebo controlled trial of Gabapentin which looked at the Management of hot flashes in men on a hormone blockade (ADT) was recently completed and published in the March 2009 journal of the Ann of Oncology. One of the most common and bothersome side effects of a hormone blockade [...]