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The profit: $17.35 from handmade bracelets. The donation: Priceless
Patient Gerald Rustad’s granddaughter Aurora helped raise funds for prostate cancer research by selling homemade bracelets. Explaining a prostate cancer diagnosis to a young child can be difficult —...
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Observe World Cancer Day by reducing your cancer risk. Here’s how:
With this week’s World Cancer Day challenging us to think about cancer on a global scale, we should also keep in mind that daily choices affect cancer risk on an individual scale. Simply put, lifestyle...
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Cancer Insights: The benefits of surgery for aggressive prostate cancer
Bertram Yuh, M.D., assistant clinical professor in the Division of Urology and Urologic Oncology at City of Hope, offers his perspective on the benefits of surgery for aggressive prostate cancer. For...
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To screen for PSA or not …? Study links ‘not’ to higher-risk cancer
New research led by City of Hope researcher Timothy Schultheiss found that U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendations against the PSA test may be linked to an increase in higher-risk prostate...
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Cancer Insights: The potential of CAR-T cells to fight prostate cancer
Pick up any biotech industry report and you’re guaranteed to come across one term repeatedly – CAR-T therapy. A fierce competition is now underway to bring CAR-T treatments to market – several...
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Cancer Insights: The real link between prostate cancer and hair loss
Sumanta Kumar Pal: The connection between prostate cancer and hair loss is not coincidence, but it might not be exactly what many men think either. My colleagues in the clinic know I’ve got a soft...
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Breast cancer risk appears linked to family history of prostate cancer
When considering cancer risk, categories like “women’s cancers” and “men’s cancers” may not matter. A complete medical history, especially of first-degree relatives, must be considered when evaluating...
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National Doctors Day: Behind great medical care, there’s research
Today is National Doctors Day, the official day to recognize, thank and celebrate the tremendous work physicians do each and every day. Launched in 1991 via a presidential proclamation from...
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Nature’s bounty could be next source of cancer-fighting therapies
Cancer treatments have improved over the years, but one potential source of treatments and cures remains largely untapped: nature. Cancer researchers look to nature’s bounty, such as pomegranates, for...
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Mushroom powder linked to lower PSA levels in prostate cancer patients
White button mushrooms seem fairly innocuous as fungi go. Unlike portabellas, they don’t center stage at the dinner table, and unlike truffles, they’re not the subject of gourmand fervor. But...
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Cancer Insights: What I’ll be looking for in Chicago – an ASCO 2015 preview
The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) is a U.S.-based organization that ties together oncology health care professionals (doctors, nurses and pharmacists) from around the world. The...
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Brain cancer treatment helps men with advanced prostate cancer
City of Hope is developing cures for men by bridging the lab and clinic. Here, Karen Aboody works with Jacob Berlin. Although science and medicine have much in common, their practitioners are immersed...
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Prostate cancer survivor Barry Leshowitz: My advice to others
Barry Leshowitz is a former City of Hope patient and a family advisor for the Sheri & Les Biller Patient and Family Resource Center. Former City of Hope patient and prostate cancer survivor Barry...
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Cancer Insights: Potential new way to target lethal prostate cancer
More than 2.9 million men living in the U.S. today have been diagnosed with prostate cancer. Many of these men have had treatment with surgery or radiation and will never see their cancer return,...
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Prostate cancer: Moving toward a future with better screening, imaging
“People don’t realize prostate cancer is one of the most treatable forms of cancer,” said Ali Zhumkhawala, assistant clinical professor of urology and urologic oncology at City of Hope. In 2015, only...
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Prostate cancer patient’s first thought: ‘This has to be a mistake’
Glendora resident Nils Lindstrom teaches typography at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. The father and grandfather is also a City of Hope patient at our community practice site in...
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My prostate cancer diagnosis: What I learned, by patient Nils Lindstrom
Four weeks after surgery, Nils Lindstrom was back teaching typography at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. Sixty-year-old Nils Lindstrom never gave cancer a second thought. As a devout...
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