PSMA Targeted Therapy Trial Results: New Hope For Men With Prostate Cancer
There is incredibly hopeful news on the horizon for men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). Today, promising results were released from a clinical trial of a revolutionary new class of therapy for mCRPC: a radioactive ...
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Highly Sensitive New Type of Prostate Cancer Scan Gains FDA Approval
https://vimeo.com/736566222/064f87ecf9 What this means for patients: Today, a new type of prostate cancer scan known as 68Ga-PSMA-11 PET was approved by the FDA. This new “PSMA PET” scan can detect prostate cancer metastases much earlier, when ...
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Prostate Cancer Treatment at the VA: One Veteran’s Journey
Read an update on David Atkinson's story here. David Atkinson has lived his life in service: from West Point, to boots on the ground at Operation Desert Storm in 1991, to his free time spent ...
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Your Best Life Before, During, and After Prostate Cancer
In this 4-part series, Janet Farrar Worthington talks with PCF-funded researchers Lorelei Mucci and June Chan to uncover the latest science around food, exercise, and prostate cancer. What does it mean to live your best life? ...
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Targeting PSMA: Amazing Potential (Part 1)
Nearly three decades ago, Neil Bander, M.D., now Director of Urological Oncology Research at Weill Cornell, saw the potential of a newly discovered molecule called PSMA to be used in two ways: for imaging and also ...
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The Complex, Natural Biochemistry of a Healthy Diet
During Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, PCF hosted a webinar, “The Science of Nutrition and Prostate Cancer.” One of our panelists, the accomplished nutrition researcher Prof. Richard Mithen, presented an overview of diets and foods that have ...
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Giving Cancer a “Brown-Out”
Just when it seems like the picture of diet and prostate cancer is finally coming into focus, PCF-funded scientist Nicole Simone, M.D., a radiation oncologist at Thomas Jefferson University, has added a new dimension. It may ...
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Promising new treatment strategy for men with drug-resistant prostate cancer
A new experimental drug could offer a promising approach to treating men with advanced prostate cancer which does not respond to existing treatments, or develops resistance to them, researchers report. Their study reveals the chemical structure ...
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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 – ...
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