This is an update to a story I wrote five years ago, for Johns Hopkins Rheumatology’s LEAP Magazine, with two world experts on PTLD: post-treatment Lyme disease. They have uncovered some promising clues as to why, for some people, Lyme disease doesn’t go away, and identified some new potential avenues of treatment. Some people get […]
Limiting Prostate Cancer’s Fuel by Restricting Calories and Changing the Diet: Just when it seems like the picture of diet and prostate cancer is finally coming into focus, Nicole Simone, M.D., a radiation oncologist at Thomas Jefferson University, has added a new dimension. It may not be just a question of the good foods you […]
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Recently for the Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF), I interviewed two scientists who study lifestyle factors and their effect on prostate cancer: Epidemiologist June Chan, Sc.D., of UCSF, and epidemiologist Lorelei Mucci, M.P.H., Sc.D., of Harvard. In the last post, we talked about diet. Now let’s look at exercise, and we’ll wrap up with some quick […]
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Part One: Live Your Best Life! What can you do to live your best life? You might say, quite reasonably, that your best life does not include prostate cancer. True. But no matter where you are in your journey – prevention, treatment, recovery, or survivorship – what can you do to maximize the good, to […]
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The dumpster fire that is 2020 just keeps on burning, and the latest fuel for this crappy fire is a study, published in the Centers for Disease Control’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, showing that the incidence of men being diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer doubled between 2003 and 2017. It doesn’t take a genius […]
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*Note* I have updated this story over time as Vernon has continued to make improvements in his recovery. “I started doing all of this because I read about it on your blog.” Vernon is a college professor who had radical prostatectomy eleven months ago, who contacted me to tell his story, because he hopes it […]
If, as we have seen, inflammation can lead to prostate cancer, could anti-inflammatory agents help protect against it? The jury’s still out. However: Johns Hopkins epidemiologist Elizabeth Platz, Sc.D., has been intrigued by this possibility for many years. She is senior author of a new study on the use of aspirin and statins, published in […]
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Long-Haul Lyme Disease
This is an update to a story I wrote five years ago, for Johns Hopkins Rheumatology’s LEAP Magazine, with two world experts on PTLD: post-treatment Lyme disease. They have uncovered some promising clues as to why, for some people, Lyme disease doesn’t go away, and identified some new potential avenues of treatment. Some people get […]
A Power Outage for Prostate Cancer
Limiting Prostate Cancer’s Fuel by Restricting Calories and Changing the Diet: Just when it seems like the picture of diet and prostate cancer is finally coming into focus, Nicole Simone, M.D., a radiation oncologist at Thomas Jefferson University, has added a new dimension. It may not be just a question of the good foods you […]
Worried About Prostate Cancer? Be Proactive! Part 2: Exercise and Key Foods
Recently for the Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF), I interviewed two scientists who study lifestyle factors and their effect on prostate cancer: Epidemiologist June Chan, Sc.D., of UCSF, and epidemiologist Lorelei Mucci, M.P.H., Sc.D., of Harvard. In the last post, we talked about diet. Now let’s look at exercise, and we’ll wrap up with some quick […]
Worried About Prostate Cancer? Be Proactive! Part One
Part One: Live Your Best Life! What can you do to live your best life? You might say, quite reasonably, that your best life does not include prostate cancer. True. But no matter where you are in your journey – prevention, treatment, recovery, or survivorship – what can you do to maximize the good, to […]
More Fuel for the 2020 Dumpster Fire: The Fallout of Not Screening for Prostate Cancer
The dumpster fire that is 2020 just keeps on burning, and the latest fuel for this crappy fire is a study, published in the Centers for Disease Control’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, showing that the incidence of men being diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer doubled between 2003 and 2017. It doesn’t take a genius […]
One Man’s DIY Prostatectomy Recovery Plan
*Note* I have updated this story over time as Vernon has continued to make improvements in his recovery. “I started doing all of this because I read about it on your blog.” Vernon is a college professor who had radical prostatectomy eleven months ago, who contacted me to tell his story, because he hopes it […]
Could Anti-Inflammatory Drugs Work Against Prostate Cancer?
If, as we have seen, inflammation can lead to prostate cancer, could anti-inflammatory agents help protect against it? The jury’s still out. However: Johns Hopkins epidemiologist Elizabeth Platz, Sc.D., has been intrigued by this possibility for many years. She is senior author of a new study on the use of aspirin and statins, published in […]