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) [...]