Cancer ABCs From Surviving To Thriving - How to Thrive with Cancer
OUR MISSION
To facilitate tangible improvements in the lives of people who have been affected by cancer(s), by providing them and their loved ones the necessary survival tools, education, support and advocacy so that they can become responsible for and take an active role in their own medical care and wellbeing.
OUR GOAL
Our goal is to teach all people affected by cancer, including those with multiple cancers and/or rare cancers, to become CANCER THRIVERS.
Episodes
24 episodes
NBA Basketball Superstar Grant Hill Discusses Racial Disparities in Prostate Cancer
NBA superstar Grant Hill, also an Atlanta Hawks co-owner, and African American health advocate, has teamed up with Dendreon to combat the prostate cancer racial disparities experienced by African American men. He discusses, along wi...
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27:51
Node Positive Prostate Cancer – Treatment and Survival
Overall survival and cancer-specific survival for those with node-positive prostate cancer treated with surgery lived longer than those who elected radiation treatment. Men diagnosed with node positive prostate cancer need to deci...
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2:37
Methotrexate and the COVID Vaccine -WARNING
https://ard.bmj.com/content/early/2021/08/22/annrheumdis-2021-220597 As per the link above, individuals taking the drug methotrexate experience an up...
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6:09
A Special Message for Someone Diagnosed with Cancer
When you are first diagnosed with cancer, when the doctor says to you have cancer, you are likely to have many different responses. Among these first possible responses are fear, apprehension, disbelief, sadness, anger, dread, or even denial. A...
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New Orleans Music Producer Shane Norris Diagnosed with Prostate Cancer During Covid Shares His Journey with HIFU Treatment
Joel Nowak and Shane Norris discuss his unusual Covid Pandemic Journey with a new prostate cancer diagnosis. Shane, a well-respected music producer and gig worker, joined with other New Orleans artists to raise funds for out-of-work music...
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26:41
Understanding the Importance of Radiopharmaceutical Scans and Why They Might Not Be Available for Us When We Need Them
Radiopharmaceutical scans (PETS) are a vital tool in our fight against cancer. These special PET scans allow us to make earlier cancer diagnoses while a cancer is still contained in the original organ. With an earlier diagno...
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Survival with Provenge - Real World Data Along with A Peek Into the Future of Treatment
Joel T Nowak from Cancer ABCs discusses with Dr. Rana McKay, Associate Professor of Medicine at the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California in San Diego, her recently published article that analysizes real world data that dem...
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25:51
Is ADT Hormone Therapy Necessary When You Take Abiraterone Acetate aka Zytiga?
One of the most common question men with prostate cancer ask us at Cancer ABCs is if they can stop their hormone therapy (ADT) when they go on a second generation hormone treatment like abiraterone (Zytiga).A recent analysis of the SPAR...
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Dealing with Salvage Radiation Side Effects for Prostate Cancer- One Mans Extraordinary Journey
Men who have a local prostate cancer recurrence, or their PSA starts increasing, after having prostate cancer surgery (a radical prostatectomy), the treatment of choice is considered salvage radiotherapy (SRT). In the post prostatectomy setting...
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27:16
Protect Yourself - Know the Limits of the Genetic Privacy Laws
Genetic testing plays a major role in identifying an individual's risk for developing cancer as well as the management of many different cancers, including prostate cancer. It's important that we patients know the limits of a key federal ...
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5:35
Prostate Cancer Clinical Trials- The Continued Lack of Racial Diversity and the Iron Man Registry's Attempt to Reverse this Trend
Written Transcript at https://www.cancerabcs.org/transcript-racial-disparities-in-prostate-cancer-clinical-trialsJoel T Nowak interviews Emily Rencsok, an MD/PhD student at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. T...
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42:56
Prostate Cancer Treatment in the COVID-19 Era
Written Transcript at:https://www.cancerabcs.org/transcript-pc-treatment-in-the-covid19-eraJoel Nowak discusses how one doctor, Dr. Emmanuel Antonarakis from The Johns Hopkins Hospital has modified his prostate cancer treatments in ...
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5:35
Understanding the Real Survival Advantages Provided By Provenge (Sipuleucel-T) for Men with Metastatic Prostate Cancer
Written Transcript at:https://www.cancerabcs.org/transcript-provengesurvivaladvantageDr. Tim Richardson talks with Joel Nowak talk about the real survival advantages that the immunotherapy known as Provenge (sipuleucel-T) offers to ...
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42:19
Prostate Cancer Surgical Incontinence Solutions
Written Transcript at:https://www.cancerabcs.org/transcript-urinary-incontinence-post-radical-prostatectomy-solutionsJoel Nowak discusses why men who have a radical prostatectomy, or the surgical removal of their prostate gland to t...
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13:31
Using the Oncotype DX Genomic Prostate Score to Decide if You Are A Candidate for Active Surveillance
Written Transcript at:https://www.cancerabcs.org/transcript-oncotype-prostate-sore-and-active-surveillanceMr. Anson Tharayanil, a Medical Science Liaison from Genomic Health rejoins Joel Nowak from Cancer ABCs to talk about another ...
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21:40
Using The Genomic Health ARV-7 Test When You Are Taking Xtandi, Zytiga or Erleada
Written Transcript at:https://www.cancerabcs.org/transcript-using-the-genomic-health-arv-7-test-when-you-arev-aking-xtandi-zytiga-or-erleadaIn this podcast Anson Tharayanil, a Meical Science Liaison from Genomic Health, Inc. talks w...
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28:47
Learning About Oligometastatic and Metastatic Prostate Cancer and How Cancer Metastasizes
Dr. Ken Pienta from The Johns Hopkins Hospital explains all about metastatic prostate Written Transcript at:https://www.cancerabcs.org/transcript-dr-ken-pienta-discusses-what-is-metastatic-prostate-cancercancer and how it spreads or metasta...
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40:35
Mark Hall's Metastatic Prostate Cancer Journey with Dr. Snuffy Meyers and Provenge (sipuleucel-T)
Written Transcript at:https://www.cancerabcs.org/transcriptMark Hall was diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer with a PSA of 4,400 and a Gleason Score of 8. Despite these terrible numbers he has been thriving the last four...
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30:54
How To Help A Person Diagnosed With Cancer
Hearing that someone you know or a loved one has been diagnosed with cancer is often scary. Not only are you concerned about their health, but many of us are not sure how to speak with them or offer them help. We want to rea...
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Remediating Hormone Therapy (ADT) Side Effects for Men with Prostate Cancer
Joel T Nowak from Cancer ABCs along with oncology nurse Fran Fanning (co-owner of Heavenly Hash) participated in a prostate cancer patient conference sponsored by Prostate Cancer International. The conference was held in Ft. Meyers Florid...
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42:51
Being Diagnosed and Living with Male Breast Cancer - Michael Singer Shares His Story
Joel Nowak from Cancer ABCs interviews Michael Singer, a male breast cancer thriver. Michael, diagnosed at age 50, shares his journey and his advocacy as a man with breast cancer. Three years before learning that he had b...
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How a Drug Gets Developed and Tested
Joel T Nowak interviews Dr. Maryanne Sadar, who has developed a novel drug target, an investigational treatment, that is a first in class hormone therapy operating on the N Terminal Domain of the androgen receptor. The investigational treatment...
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