12/27/2018
The Connection Between Smoking and Prostate Cancer
Part I Part II Part III The Connection Between Smoking and Prostate Cancer Smoking and Your Telomeres Smoking and Race If you smoke cigarettes, you are more likely to die of prostate cancer. Wait, how can this be? It’s the lungs that are up there in the combat zone,. Read More
12/19/2018
Make Sure Your PSA is as Accurate as Possible
The PSA is never meant to be a one-shot reading; it’s not a constant number, forever set in stone like the Ten Commandments. Instead, it’s more like a Polaroid snapshot – a quick capture of one moment in time. PSA fluctuates; that’s why it’s good to follow the general trend. Read More
This September, PCF teamed up with Dax Shepard to encourage men to get screened.
What would Dax rather do than get a prostate cancer exam? Just about anything. It’s funny to think about, but the problem is real: 1 in 9 men get prostate cancer, yet 42% of men say they are afraid to get screened. A prostate cancer exam starts with a simple. Read More
Young Investigator Award-Class of 2018
The PCF Young Investigator Award-Class of 2018 recipients are: 2018 Paz Littman & Morris Kahn–PCF Young Investigator Award Saud AlDubayan, MD Harvard: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Mentor: Eliezer Van Allen, MD Proposal Title: Novel Epidemiological and Computational Genomic Approaches to Explore the Missing Heritability of Primary and Metastatic Prostate Cancer Prostate cancer is. Read More
Challenge Awards – Class of 2018
The PCF Challenge Award Winners - Class of 2018 recipients are: 2018 Movember Foundation - PCF Challenge Award ($1 Million) Principal Investigators: Mark Pomerantz, MD (Harvard: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute), Philip Kantoff, MD (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center) Co-Investigators: Deborah Schrag, MD, MPH (Harvard: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute), Lorelei Mucci, ScD (Harvard. Read More
06/22/2018
Crystal Ball for Predicting Cancer Treatment Response: Your Poop?
What does the population of bacteria in your gut (called the gut “microbiome”) have to do with prostate cancer? Just how important is this gut flora, or bacteria, anyway? It’s not even in the prostate! Let’s look at the second question first. How important is your gut bacteria? It’s very. Read More
The Evolving Story of Genetics and Prostate Cancer
https://vimeo.com/737342892/daed7bb7fd Someday, there will be a definitive article on precision medicine and what it means to all men with prostate cancer and their families. This is not it. Precision medicine offers a lot of hope – but not for everybody, right at this particular moment. This will surely change: as. Read More
03/02/2018
Nate Cornell Scares Up Money for Prostate Cancer
Have you ever thought to yourself “I’d like to make a difference but I don’t know how to do it.”? Nate Cornell didn’t! Nate, age 11, ran his own haunted house this Halloween, raising over $500 to benefit life-saving prostate cancer research. The Cornell boys, Nate (11), Ben (12), Zach. Read More
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Thank you for your request. Please allow 3-4 weeks for delivery. If you have questions about this order, please contact Allison Likar at [email protected]. Read More