Conquer Prostate Cancer Now

Welcome! On this site you'll find resources and support for your prostate cancer concerns, whether you are a patient, survivor, wife or partner, other family member or friend. While you're here, you can:

• Get physical, emotional and spiritual guidance to improve your health
• Find ways to cope with sexual or urological dysfunction, pain or stress.
• Learn what to say when your doctor doesn’t listen (see ABC-TV interview)
• Be inspired by uplifting quotes and humor.
• Inquire about research and treatment updates.
• Share your views and concerns by leaving comments.

Here's to your health!

Will Eating the Right Food Prevent Prostate Cancer or Its Recurrence?

This past week I was hospitalized due to a stomach obstruction. The next morning one of my doctors palpated my stomach. Then he commented that the IV fluids I was on, along with other meds I had taken, had lowered my temperature and reduced my discomfort.

After concluding that I was well on my way to recovery, the doctor noticed a copy of my book, Conquer Prostate Cancer, on the night stand next to my hospital bed. Switching gears, this friendly man in the white coat suddenly took on the role of MY patient!  He told me he was increasingly worried about his prostate, and asked me if I thought that adapting a suitable diet could prevent prostate cancer.

Prostate Cancer and Sexual Intimacy

This morning I read Dr. Mehmet Oz' message board at Oprah.com. A viewer there inquired whether men who become physically impotent generally also become "emotional vegetables". The answer is that this can occur but is not inevitable. Still this question prompts us to review some of the causes of ED, including prostate cancer and its treatment after-effects, and to address what men can do when impotence/ED leads them to become "emotional vegetables."  What follows is a response I left at Dr. Oz' message board.

Prostate Cancer and Creating Change Now

Many of us who face prostate cancer, whether ours or that of a spouse or other family member, have to remember that life doesn't stop when illness strikes. If anything sickness can spur further growth, as long as we're willing to rise to new challenges.

Got Prostate Cancer? Create Change Now

One of the features offered at www.ConquerProstateCancerNow.com  are quotable quotes to inspire prostate cancer patients, survivors, wives, other family members and friends. The citations offered to our readers are derived from my book that inspired this blog, as well as many other sources. After all, insights about dealing with life's ups and downs are never the province of one person.

The Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA) Test - The Last Word, for Now

At the end of the American Urological Association conference in Chicago on April 28, its conveners announced that the AUA's year 2000 standard of practice for all men 50 and over to get the PSA test should now be lowered to age 40 and up. This is an overt endorsement of the PSA test, despite its deficiencies, providing patients are likely to live at least another ten years.

Prostate Cancer and Depression

According to a new study, the depression cancer patients experience may stem from more than emotional turmoil. It appears that depression can stem from patients' cancerous tumors as well.

Paying Attention to Prostate Cancer After-Effects

"A good urologist should be paying attention not just to the incision or the disease, but to the other health factors as well, such as emotional recovery, sexual recovery and urinary recovery."

--Dr. Judd Moul, director of the Center for Prostate Disease Research in Washington, D.C.
(cited at HealthCentral.com,  http://www.us.depend.com/male/Article.aspx?id=14000000488&threadId=14000000178&forumId=14000000074.)

Incontinence and Prostate Cancer

The subject of incontinence is rarely discussed in public. When an adult can't "hold it in", an inability to retain his or her bodily fluids is often a source of embarrassment.

Conquer Prostate Cancer Wins Indie Awards in Health and Men's Issues

I'm delighted to inform our readers that my book, Conquer Prostate Cancer, recently received two awards in the annual Indie Excellence® book awards competition! The book won first place in the Men's Issues category and was a finalist in the Health category.

Prostate Cancer, ED, and Testosterone

Some of us are avid readers of New York Times editor, Dana Jennings.  In his superb writing style Jennings has spent months describing a more advanced form of prostate cancer than what the vast majority of newly diagnosed patients like me and others have gone through.