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by HughGunn
Thu Nov 28, 2013 7:34 pm
Forum: prostate disease & prostate cancer
Topic: Selenium may lower risk of prostate cancer
Replies: 3
Views: 18682

Re: Selenium may lower risk of prostate cancer

Shame the EU banned selling them in shell because they thought the shells caused cancer :-(
by HughGunn
Sat Nov 23, 2013 7:34 pm
Forum: prostate disease & prostate cancer
Topic: New prostate cancer drug could help bones
Replies: 1
Views: 10474

Re: New prostate cancer drug could help bones

:x Yes it certainty could, but unfortunately, NICE has passed it for use in every other cancer apart from prostate cancer
by HughGunn
Sat Nov 09, 2013 6:27 pm
Forum: prostate disease & prostate cancer
Topic: Bone Health and Advanced Prostate Cancer
Replies: 3
Views: 7193

Re: Bone Health and Advanced Prostate Cancer

Hi Colin, you are quite right, yes of course bone health should be monitored, but the fact remains that hormone treatment causes osteoporosis and this could be avoided. After 5 years on hormone therapy, a man could lose considerably more bone density than 2%. This becomes much more of a problem with...
by HughGunn
Sat Nov 09, 2013 1:49 pm
Forum: prostate disease & prostate cancer
Topic: Bone Health and Advanced Prostate Cancer
Replies: 3
Views: 7193

Bone Health and Advanced Prostate Cancer

Every other cancer has a NICE treatment pathway for bone health when it has metastasised. Not so with prostate cancer! The only treatment for advanced prostate cancer is hormone treatment, which causes osteoporosis and eventually skeletal related events (SRE's). This means bone fractures and the pos...
by HughGunn
Sat Nov 09, 2013 1:25 pm
Forum: prostate disease & prostate cancer
Topic: Enzalutamide after Abiraterone
Replies: 0
Views: 4719

Enzalutamide after Abiraterone

The new advance prostate cancer drug Enzalutamide is now available under the CDF, but NOT if you have been given Abiraterone first. This ruling precludes the very men who need it and is grossly unfair. As a matter of urgency, please write to your MP to register your disapproval of this. Lives depend...
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