06/06/2022
Alternative Endpoints: Results that Potentially Accelerate Phase 3 Clinical Trials in Metastatic Hormone-Sensitive Prostate Cancer
Clinical trials can bring life-extending and potentially curative new treatments to patients with cancer. They play a vital role in determining the safety and efficacy of investigational treatments, generating data which the FDA requires for making decisions on whether a new therapy can be approved and enter widespread clinical practice.. Read More
06/03/2022
Caring For Yourself During and After Prostate Cancer: Best Survivorship Stories
National Cancer Survivors’ Day is the first Sunday in June, when we celebrate people living with a history of cancer. It’s a day to reflect on what survivors bring to our community and to recognize the challenges they face during and after treatment. More than 3 million men in the. Read More
06/02/2022
Doug Maddox: Survivor
There is no status quo when you live with cancer. Doug Maddox, a U.S. Army Veteran who served in the Vietnam War, understands this quite well. He has been battling prostate cancer for more than a decade, and has met everything the disease has thrown at him with courage and. Read More
05/25/2022
Tips to “Keep Dad In the Game”
June is a busy month. The baseball season is in full swing. Men’s Health Week is June 13-19, with Father’s Day on June 19. During the Home Run Challenge, May 27- June 19, PCF is traveling to ballparks across the U.S. to spread the word about prostate cancer awareness and. Read More
05/25/2022
A Powerful Advocate
It’s good to have friends in high places, and men with prostate cancer have a knowledgeable and powerful advocate working for them: Karen Knudsen, Ph.D., M.B.A., a PCF-funded investigator who in 2021 became the first woman, and the first basic science researcher, to be named CEO of the American Cancer. Read More
05/20/2022
Prostate Cancer Survivorship, Part 1
Survivor. What does that word bring to mind? (Besides, of course, the name of the rock band whose song, “Eye of the Tiger,” went double-platinum in 1982 and was the theme of “Rocky III.”) There are more prostate cancer survivors now than ever before. More men are being. Read More
05/20/2022
You’ve Got Prostate Cancer. Now What? Read This First.
You’ve had the PSA test – or more likely, several of them – plus the digital rectal exam, and one or both of these suggested that you needed a biopsy. The biopsy was not fun, but you did it, and then you waited for a pathologist to look at the. Read More
05/20/2022
Prostate Cancer Survivorship, Part 2
Matters of Survivorship: Sexual Health If you’re dealing with prostate cancer – the disease itself, or the aftermath of treatment – then you are dealing with issues of survivorship, says PCF-funded medical oncologist Alicia Morgans, M.D., M.P.H., Medical Director of Cancer Survivorship at Dana Farber Cancer Institute. Sexual health is. Read More
05/20/2022
Prostate Cancer Survivorship, Part 3
Matters of Survivorship: Fighting Back on ADT ADT will try to affect your overall health, but here’s the good news: you can fight back, says PCF-funded medical oncologist Alicia Morgans, M.D., M.P.H., Medical Director of Cancer Survivorship at Dana Farber Cancer Institute. Be aware of what it might do, and. Read More
05/18/2022
Metastatic Prostate Cancer: Don’t Accept Complacency!
“This is all we can do” is a phrase no cancer patient wants to hear, especially someone with metastatic disease. Medical oncologist and PCF-funded investigator Andrew Armstrong, M.D., M.Sc., hears those six words a lot – from patients who have come to see him at Duke University’s Cancer Center, a. Read More