Healing and Grace
In many ways, Russell Clayton’s story sounds like an ideal scenario from a prostate cancer playbook: In September 2015, Clayton, a doctor himself – he is an Ob/Gyn in Los Angeles – went for his yearly checkup. He requested a PSA blood test. “My physician wasn’t going to order the. Read More
USPSTF Prostate Cancer FAQs
When health policy makers are making decisions about PSA-based screening, first and foremost, they should bear in mind that the balance of harms and benefits cannot be determined given the current state of science and flawed methodology of the PLCO study. PCF thus calls for a step back from a. Read More
Survivor’s Son: “No reaction is as strong and fierce as when it’s your own family member”
Prostate Cancer Family Member Checklist: Reach Out Learn More Get Involved Ask Ian McLeod how his dad is doing, and he’s happy to tell you: “He’s doing phenomenal. He had a wonderful surgeon, his surgery went without any complications, he healed up nicely and he was out of the hospital. Read More
Treating the Gene
In a matter of weeks, Mark Meerschaert went from being an athlete to someone who could barely walk; metastatic prostate cancer had come from nowhere and spread like wildfire throughout his body. A highly respected mathematics professor and researcher – the kind who fills up the blackboard in his classroom. Read More
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Survivor’s Spirit
How to Get Through Really Awful Things, Be a Smart Partner in Your Own Care, and Even Keep Your Sense of Humor Here’s what you might not have in common with Paul Calobrisi: His cancer didn’t start in the prostate. It started in the bladder and included the prostate. Here’s. Read More
“Fallout” from New Study: Men with Early Balding May Be at Higher Risk of Aggressive Prostate Cancer
Are you at higher risk of getting aggressive prostate cancer? Results of two studies say the answer may be staring you right in the face. Actually, a little higher: in the hairline. One study, published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, shows that men who have a certain pattern of. Read More
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