Financial help Getting PCA Required Medications and Treatments - see pages 39-41 of link

APC Guy said...
... there is now a new program called Start A Cure (www.StartACure.com) which currently lists 23 prostate cancer specific research projects that are looking for funding. They come out of the best institutions including Harvard, MD Anderson, Johns Hopkins and UCLA.

The site was designed as one answer to the terrible funding cuts experienced by cancer research ($7.1 billion cut from cancer research at the NIH resulting from the government sequester etc.)

Descriptions of the proposals appear on the site along with an explanation from the researcher by they are interested in doing the research. The proposals range from prevention to aftercare and everything in between.

Some sample projects included are:
1- An analysis of what goes wrong in the diagnosis of PC in African American Men
2- Testosterone Therapy; Feeling Better While Defeating Cancer
3- Probing Prostate Cancer by Circulating Tumor Cells
4- Fighting PC with Breast Cancer Drugs
5- Who Will Respond to Zytiga and Xtandi?

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Start A Cure (www.StartACure.com) has been created and is managed by Malecare, a long time prostate cancer education and advocacy organization. In interest of full disclosure I am the voluntary (we all are) Director of Advanced Prostate Cancer and Advocacy Programs.

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Joel T Nowak, M.A., M.S.W.
Survivor of Advanced Prostate Cancer

Joel, I understand why Peter had to snip out some of your original post. However he may have inadvertently removed one of the links that led me to his valuable publication. So if you have the link that took me to another page, other may benefit by signing up for the updates, and not just snagging this publication which is excellent.

malecare.org/advancedpcabookV2.1klgfg0e4w8e4fgjfguifgeiu.pdf

entitled "A Working Document for Men with Advanced and Recurrent Prostate Cancer"

I only scanned it so far but it appears to be the most thorough document on the subject I have seen.

It is a little dated since it stills shows Radium 223 as in development, but the materials appear to be very thorough.

so I am starting a separate thread on the financial aid available, again the most thorough listing I have seen - see pages 39-41 on the link.

Thanks so much Joel for all that you do for education and awareness.

LupronJim

Jim, I agree. The info Joel provided is clear and concise. I spent hours researching this stuff over the last 10 years at least including financial resources and here it is all in one place. New members may get a lot of questions answered just from this document. I will be saving this for reference and checking out more on www.malecare.org as time permits.
Pat