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As we move throughout our day-to-day lives, we come in contact with dozens of people. Aside from our daily job and career, we dine in at restaurants, pull up next...

I vividly remember May 2017. I’d been training most of the year for an ultra-marathon that was due to take place on June 4, but I’d been plagued by a...

The moment an individual is told they have been diagnosed with prostate cancer, they begin to pay a heavy cost not only financially but emotionally. Cancer can cost a person...

Bobby was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2020. He talks about his path to getting diagnosed and undergoing proton therapy for treatment. Read Part 1 and Part 3. My first...

Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in men in the United States. In fact, it is estimated that 1 in 9 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer...

If you have been diagnosed with low-risk prostate cancer, chances are good that you may be able to take advantage of something called active surveillance. A low-risk cancer is one...

Bobby was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2020. He talks about his path to getting diagnosed and undergoing proton therapy for treatment. Read Part 2. As the saying goes, when...

In 2005, David Foster Wallace, an award-winning novelist and then professor at Pomona University, presented a commencement address to the graduating class at Kenyon College. During the presentation, he told...

I say irony because when I was 45 years old, my employer at the time sent me for a medical. The outcome was that I was borderline clinically obese, and...

An old Scots-Gaelic phrase “dinna fash” has become a war cry for this old battle hardened cancer warrior. “Dinna fash” translates into English as “do not worry” or “do not...

I joined a prostate support group a few months ago. I wanted to learn more about this disease since my father was diagnosed at the age of 72. I've met some...

Digital therapeutics (DTx) first entered clinical discussions in the 1990s. The idea was that technology could improve healthcare access. It could help overcome barriers of location, time, and resources. This...

This may be one of the first theater reviews for ProstateCancer.net, so here’s the news: Ed Asner stars in a one-man show called "A Man and His Prostate," and you...

Not long ago I met a woman whose husband had passed from un-diagnosed prostate cancer. By the time he gave in (due to significant pain), he discovered both the cause...

The world is obsessed with vaccines. Well, in truth, it’s those vaccines that will hopefully set us free from COVID and allow us to return to something close to call...

I am not talking about my friend and fishing partner, Edward (Ed). Nope…  I am talking about the big question that comes up most often in our prostate cancer education...

One of the most overwhelming challenges that accompanies a cancer diagnosis is that of finding funds to cover all the normal day-to-day bills and still be able to pay for...

When we meet someone new, be it socially or for business, we often try to gain a better understanding about that person by trying to discover things we might have...

Treatment for prostate cancer usually includes radiation therapy. This can be either external beam radiation therapy or internal (brachytherapy). Radiation therapy has many potential side effects. These side effects include...

2020 saw many of us reach milestones that we were not able to celebrate thanks to being in various states of lockdown during the Covid pandemic. In Greater Manchester UK...