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How to Best Communicate Prostate Cancer Treatment Side Effects to Your Healthcare Team

Posted by on Jul 27, 2016 in Prostate cancer | 0 comments

How do I manage my side effects for better quality of life? Patient Power founder and host, Andrew Schorr, facilitates a dialogue between advanced prostate cancer experts, Dr. William Catalona, Dr. Russell Szmulewitz of University of Chicago Medical Center, and Judith Paice, PhD, RN to discuss managing and communicating treatment side effects. ...

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A Review of Prostate Cancer Prognostic Factors

A Review of Prostate Cancer Prognostic Factors

Posted by on Jun 12, 2016 in Prostate cancer | 0 comments

  Prognostic factors, including blood tests and radiographic scans, can help establish a patient’s prognosis and determine a treatment path. Experts from MD Anderson Cancer Center, Drs. Jeri Kim and Sumit Subudhi, review factors that are associate with prostate cancer and discuss research underway that could lead to more personalized...

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Emerging Prostate Cancer Immunotherapy Options

Emerging Prostate Cancer Immunotherapy Options

Posted by on Jun 5, 2016 in Prostate cancer | 0 comments

Patient advocate Jeff Folloder conducts an in-depth discussion on emerging immunotherapy approaches for advanced prostate cancer with MD Anderson Cancer Center experts, Dr. Sumit Subudhi and Dr. Jeri Kim.  Walking us through developing treatments, including vaccines and checkpoint inhibitors/immune modulators, these experts refer to today as...

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Targeted Treatment for Breast Cancer

Posted by on May 25, 2016 in Breast cancer | 0 comments

Targeted treatment for breast cancer through external beam radiation is offering hope for those newly diagnosed with the disease. Dr. Christine Fang, radiation oncologist at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, details how this important approach allows for greater precision during radiation, offers protection for the heart and great benefit for...

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Prostate Cancer and Sexuality

Prostate Cancer and Sexuality

Posted by on May 15, 2016 in Prostate cancer | 0 comments

How does a diagnosis of prostate cancer affect intimacy?  Led by patient advocate Jeff Folloder, experts across several disciplines discuss sexuality and dysfunction. The panel explores how, in one form or another, this subject affects every single advanced prostate cancer patient and his partner.  Learn how communication and support through...

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Increasing importance of tissue biopsy (VIDEO)

Increasing importance of tissue biopsy (VIDEO)

Posted by on Nov 22, 2015 in Lung cancer | 0 comments

On location at the World Conference on Lung Cancer (WCLC), we caught up with Dr. Edward Kim, Chair of the Solid Tumor Oncology Investigational Therapy Department at Carolina's Levine Cancer Institute.  Dr. Kim highlighted three of the most exciting changes occurring in the lung cancer field: new options and tools for patients, updated tumor...

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