It’s Prostate Awareness Month and “The Rickey Smiley Morning Show” is talking prostate health with Dr. Collier. Listen to the audio player to hear important information…
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer affecting American men. In 2010, an estimated 217,730 men were diagnosed with it and 32,050 died of it, according to a report in the Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine by Dr. Charles Modlin, a urologist and kidney transplant surgeon and director of the Minority Men’s Health Center at […]
Black men develop prostate cancer 60% more often than white men. In addition, they have a higher chance of dying from it. Because of this…
This morning I want to talk about something that has become a major part of my and so many other Americans lives. CANCER. Every April the American Cancer Society and other organizations work together to raise awareness about cancer among minorities in honor of National Minority Health Month and this week is National Minority Cancer […]
When Thomas Farrington was diagnosed with prostate cancer in March 2000, he didn't know what all his treatment options were, but the radical treatment that included surgery didn't sound like a viable plan for an otherwise healthy man. "I kind of looked at it as a death sentence," said Farrington, who lost his father and […]
CHICAGO (AP) — A hormone-blocking pill approved last year for some men with advanced prostate cancer now also seems to help a wider group of men who were given it sooner in the course of treating their disease. In a study of nearly 1,100 such men, Johnson & Johnson's Zytiga doubled the time patients lived […]
CHICAGO (AP) — A hormone-blocking pill approved last year for some men with advanced prostate cancer now also seems to help a wider group of men who were given it sooner in the course of treating their disease. In a study of nearly 1,100 such men, Johnson & Johnson's Zytiga doubled the time patients lived […]
