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
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