Yesterday, Doug Ulman from the Lance Armstrong Foundation delivered 65,000 signatures, from survivors and supporters of all kinds of cancers on a Peitition. Our Petition to Make Prostate Cancer a National Priority has an amazing 16,000 signatures. The most successful prostate cancer grass roots effort in over ten years! Soon, I will be meeting with [...]
The relatively new drug, denosumab, has proven itself very effective for men on a hormone blockade (ADT). In a recently completed 3-year, randomized, double-blind study at the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Boston, Massachusetts, denosumab significantly increased bone mineral density and decreased new vertebral fractures in men receiving ADT for the treatment of advanced prostate [...]
There have been a number of articles that claim that older cancer patients report less distress than younger cancer patients report. However, this research has generally not sorted the differences among general distress, anxiety, and depression in older vs. younger survivors. Elson CJ, Weinberger MI, Balk E, Holland J, Breitbart W, Roth AJ. From the [...]
I don’t know about your experiences, but I definitely suffer from insomnia. There are two different types of insomnia, difficulty falling asleep and difficulty staying asleep. I have no problem getting to sleep, but after three to four hours I find myself waking every half hour to hour. This can continue on for two to [...]
There is some good news on the horizon, or at least we are setting up for the possibility of some future good news. Coming off of the recent news about the very successful phase II trial of CB7630 (abiraterone acetate), Cougar Biotechnology, Inc. has reached agreement with the FDA under a special protocol assessment (SPA) [...]
KEYS TO A SUCCESSFUL CONGRESSIONAL VISIT “WHAT TO EXPECT, WHAT TO DO AND NOT DO” 1. Have a message. Know what you want and be prepared to ask. Hill meetings can be quite short so it’s key to get to the point and make your point clear and concisely. 2. Meetings on the Hill can [...]
Twitter's first Prostate Cancer Survivor Chat will be held on Thursday, July 16 from 4-5:30PM Join the discussion with hashtag #pcachat It will be facilitated by Malecare Prostate Cancer Support. Please follow me @prostatenews or http://www.twitter.com/prostatenews to stay in touch on this new event. The worlds first twitter cancer survivor support group was held, today, [...]
Please take a few minutes to help elevate OUR prostate cancer nonprofit, Malecare. Though Malecare is known as our country's leading gay men's cancer support group nonprofit, we are committed to helping ALL men with prostate cancer. Today, please take a minute to help Malecare achieve the recognition that ALL of our volunteers and participants [...]
What is a good prostate cancer diet? In reality, there is no overwhelming, big sample size studies that we can point to that provides actual scientific, statistically significant evidence of being the “best.” However, many small studies point to the better diet (better than the typical western diet full of red meat and processed sugars). [...]
A paradoxical, but logical finding, indicates that I am more likely to die from prostate cancer than my fellow pc survivors. In the world of prostate cancer I am a young man. I was diagnosed at 50 years and suffered a recurrence at 55 years, in the prostate cancer world this makes me a young [...]
