05/14/2019
$5 Donation to Enter to Win this Bike at Dime City Cycles
Dime City Cycles and For The Bold built this bike to fund Prostate Cancer Research. Donate For Your Chance to Win this Amazing One of a Kind Motorcycle. Read More
05/14/2019
Independence Blue Cross
Independence Blue Cross proudly supports Prostate Cancer Foundation in many ways including: The Home Run Challenge, PCF’s partnership with the VA and a full range awareness campaign during Prostate Cancer Awareness Month. Read More
05/10/2019
Nurse Jenny Chen: Making a Difference for Veterans with Prostate Cancer
Rob Crocker knows a lot about jazz. He started out as a jazz musician in Brooklyn, New York. When his hearing was damaged during the Vietnam War, he switched to jazz radio and programming jazz, with a focus on Brazilian music. His recognizably warm, velvety voice is familiar to radio. Read More
04/30/2019
How to Tell Your Kids About Your Cancer Diagnosis
Prioritize telling your children Many people face understandable reluctance when deciding whether they should tell their children about their cancer diagnosis. Are they too young? Is it too much for them to handle? Is it too much for me to handle? These concerns are reasonable, but you must set them. Read More
04/16/2019
Metastatic Prostate Cancer Project: Crowd-sourcing a Cure
Crowd-sourcing is a new term, but the idea has been around forever. It means, basically, that everybody pitches in. It’s the idea behind an Amish barn-raising, or a bake sale, or Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney saying, “Let’s Put on a Show!” to raise money, or even a plain old. Read More
04/09/2019
Stopping the Runaway Train: A Brand New Way to Kill Prostate Cancer
The most deadly prostate cancers are addicted to SRCs. They’re like crack for cancer. But guess what? “SRCS can be reprogrammed. They can be suppressed.” How do you stop a runaway train? Take a few seconds and think about it; feel free to draw from any runaway-themed movies you might. Read More
03/05/2019
Aggressive Prostate Cancer and Our “Dark DNA”
Imagine trying to study Earth, and only looking at the land. You could learn many things, it’s true – but you would also miss a heck of a lot, because the vast majority of our planet is covered by water! They don’t call it the blue planet for nothing! To. Read More
Changing the Fight Against Metastatic Prostate Cancer
UCSF physician-scientists and PCF-funded investigators David Oh, M.D., Ph.D., and Larry Fong, M.D., are doing something that would have been unthinkable even a couple years ago: they are aggressively going after hormone-sensitive cancer that has escaped the prostate, as soon as it is diagnosed. Not waiting for it to get. Read More
01/10/2019
Smoking and Race
Part I Part II Part III The Connection Between Smoking and Prostate Cancer Smoking and Your Telomeres Smoking and Race At this point we all know that smoking is bad for your health, but new studies have shown that race may also be a factor in the connection between. Read More
01/02/2019
What are Telomeres and how some lifestyle choices destroy them? Smoking and Your Telomeres
Part I Part II Part III The Connection Between Smoking and Prostate Cancer Smoking and Your Telomeres Smoking and Race Telomeres are like aglets, the little plastic tips on the ends of shoelaces (in fact, their name comes from the Greek words meaning “end” and “part”). They are tiny. Read More