Latest Cancer thriver Podcast Episodes
NBA Basketball Superstar Grant Hill Discusses Racial Disparities in Prostate Cancer
Cancer ABCs From Surviving To Thriving - How to Thrive with Cancer - June 09, 2022 13:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsNBA 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 with Cancer ABCs CEO Joel Nowak, how men, particularly African A...
Node Positive Prostate Cancer – Treatment and Survival
Cancer ABCs From Surviving To Thriving - How to Thrive with Cancer - March 21, 2022 13:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsOverall 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 decide if they want to include a targeted treatment to their prosta...
Methotrexate and the COVID Vaccine -WARNING
Cancer ABCs From Surviving To Thriving - How to Thrive with Cancer - August 29, 2021 12:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingshttps://ard.bmj.com/content/early/2021/08/22/annrheumdis-2021-220597 As per the link above, individuals taking the drug methotrexate experience an up to 62% reduced rate of an immunological response when given a mRNA Covid-19 vaccination like to Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. This finding sugge...
Methotrexate and the COVID Vaccine -WARNING
Cancer ABCs From Surviving To Thriving - How to Thrive with Cancer - August 29, 2021 12:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingshttps://ard.bmj.com/content/early/2021/08/22/annrheumdis-2021-220597 As per the link above, individuals taking the drug methotrexate experience an up to 62% reduced rate of an immunological response when given a mRNA Covid-19 vaccination like to Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. This finding sugge...
A Special Message for Someone Diagnosed with Cancer
Cancer ABCs From Surviving To Thriving - How to Thrive with Cancer - August 24, 2021 17:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsWhen 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. Any and all of these reactions are reasonable and nor...
New Orleans Music Producer Shane Norris Diagnosed with Prostate Cancer During Covid Shares His Journey with HIFU Treatment
Cancer ABCs From Surviving To Thriving - How to Thrive with Cancer - June 22, 2021 19:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsJoel 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 musicians. As he began to create a fund raising vehicle he wa...
New Orleans Music Producer Shane Norris Diagnosed with Prostate Cancer During Covid Shares His Journey with HIFU Treatment
Cancer ABCs From Surviving To Thriving - How to Thrive with Cancer - June 22, 2021 19:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsJoel 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 musicians. As he began to create a fund raising vehicle he wa...
Understanding the Importance of Radiopharmaceutical Scans and Why They Might Not Be Available for Us When We Need Them
Cancer ABCs From Surviving To Thriving - How to Thrive with Cancer - April 22, 2021 22:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsRadiopharmaceutical 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 diagnosis, treatments can still stop the cancer before it is able to move ...
Survival with Provenge - Real World Data Along with A Peek Into the Future of Treatment
Cancer ABCs From Surviving To Thriving - How to Thrive with Cancer - December 21, 2020 17:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsJoel 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 demonstrates that Provenge (sipuleucel-T), an immune therapy...
Survival with Provenge - Real World Data Along with a Peak Into the Future of Treatment
Cancer ABCs From Surviving To Thriving - How to Thrive with Cancer - December 21, 2020 17:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsJoel 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 demonstrates that Provenge (sipuleucel-T), an immune therapy...
Is ADT Hormone Therapy Necessary When You Take Abiraterone Acetate aka Zytiga?
Cancer ABCs From Surviving To Thriving - How to Thrive with Cancer - October 15, 2020 21:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsOne 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 SPARE Trial points us in the direction that it might be possib...
Dealing with Salvage Radiation Side Effects for Prostate Cancer- One Mans Extraordinary Journey
Cancer ABCs From Surviving To Thriving - How to Thrive with Cancer - July 28, 2020 19:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsMen 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, SRT may impose significant risks and complications...
Dealing with Salvage Radiation Side Effects for Prostate Cancer- One Mans Extraordinary Journey
Cancer ABCs From Surviving To Thriving - How to Thrive with Cancer - July 28, 2020 19:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsMen 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, SRT may impose significant risks and complications...
Protect Yourself - Know the Limits of the Genetic Privacy Laws
Cancer ABCs From Surviving To Thriving - How to Thrive with Cancer - July 15, 2020 18:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsGenetic 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 privacy law that is supposed to protect us when we do hav...
Prostate Cancer Clinical Trials- The Continued Lack of Racial Diversity and the Iron Man Registry's Attempt to Reverse this Trend
Cancer ABCs From Surviving To Thriving - How to Thrive with Cancer - July 06, 2020 13:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsWritten Transcript at https://www.cancerabcs.org/transcript-racial-disparities-in-prostate-cancer-clinical-trials Joel T Nowak interviews Emily Rencsok, an MD/PhD student at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. They discuss the findings of a recent publication which she was the firs...
Prostate Cancer Treatment in the COVID-19 Era
Cancer ABCs From Surviving To Thriving - How to Thrive with Cancer - May 13, 2020 19:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsWritten Transcript at: https://www.cancerabcs.org/transcript-pc-treatment-in-the-covid19-era Joel Nowak discusses how one doctor, Dr. Emmanuel Antonarakis from The Johns Hopkins Hospital has modified his prostate cancer treatments in the era of the coronavirus. Joel shares how Dr. Antonarakis ...
Understanding the Real Survival Advantages Provided By Provenge (Sipuleucel-T) for Men with Metastatic Prostate Cancer
Cancer ABCs From Surviving To Thriving - How to Thrive with Cancer - September 16, 2019 17:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsWritten Transcript at: https://www.cancerabcs.org/transcript-provengesurvivaladvantage Dr. Tim Richardson talks with Joel Nowak talk about the real survival advantages that the immunotherapy known as Provenge (sipuleucel-T) offers to men, especially men who get the therapy while their PSA is lo...
Prostate Cancer Surgical Incontinence Solutions
Cancer ABCs From Surviving To Thriving - How to Thrive with Cancer - August 30, 2019 21:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsWritten Transcript at: https://www.cancerabcs.org/transcript-urinary-incontinence-post-radical-prostatectomy-solutions Joel Nowak discusses why men who have a radical prostatectomy, or the surgical removal of their prostate gland to treat prostate cancer often suffer urinary incontinence. Urin...
Using the Oncotype DX Genomic Prostate Score to Decide if You Are A Candidate for Active Surveillance
Cancer ABCs From Surviving To Thriving - How to Thrive with Cancer - July 19, 2019 20:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsWritten Transcript at: https://www.cancerabcs.org/transcript-oncotype-prostate-sore-and-active-surveillance Mr. Anson Tharayanil, a Medical Science Liaison from Genomic Health rejoins Joel Nowak from Cancer ABCs to talk about another test for men diagnosed with low or favorable medium risk pros...
Using The Genomic Health ARV-7 Test When You Are Taking Xtandi, Zytiga or Erleada
Cancer ABCs From Surviving To Thriving - How to Thrive with Cancer - July 03, 2019 17:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsWritten Transcript at: https://www.cancerabcs.org/transcript-using-the-genomic-health-arv-7-test-when-you-arev-aking-xtandi-zytiga-or-erleada In this podcast Anson Tharayanil, a Meical Science Liaison from Genomic Health, Inc. talks with Joel Nowak about their test, the Oncotype DX ARV-7 Nucleu...
Learning About Oligometastatic and Metastatic Prostate Cancer and How Cancer Metastasizes
Cancer ABCs From Surviving To Thriving - How to Thrive with Cancer - May 23, 2019 16:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsDr. 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 metastasizes. He Includes in his discussion how prostate ca...
Learning About Oligometastatic and Metastatic Prostate Cancer and How Cancer Metastasizes
Cancer ABCs From Surviving To Thriving - How to Thrive with Cancer - May 23, 2019 16:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsDr. 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 metastasizes. He Includes in his discussion how prostate ca...
Mark Hall's Metastatic Prostate Cancer Journey with Dr. Snuffy Meyers and Provenge (sipuleucel-T)
Cancer ABCs From Surviving To Thriving - How to Thrive with Cancer - May 16, 2019 16:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsWritten Transcript at: https://www.cancerabcs.org/transcript Mark 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 years with an undetectable PSA and a fantastic quality of life! ...
How To Help A Person Diagnosed With Cancer
Cancer ABCs From Surviving To Thriving - How to Thrive with Cancer - March 31, 2019 04:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsHearing 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 reach out to them, but we don't know if we should talk about their can...
Remediating Hormone Therapy (ADT) Side Effects for Men with Prostate Cancer
Cancer ABCs From Surviving To Thriving - How to Thrive with Cancer - March 13, 2019 04:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsJoel 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 Florida in March of 2019. They offered a live presentation tha...
Being Diagnosed and Living with Male Breast Cancer - Michael Singer Shares His Story
Cancer ABCs From Surviving To Thriving - How to Thrive with Cancer - August 10, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsJoel 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 breast cancer his sister, with whom he lived, was diagnosed with metastati...
The Angiosarcoma Project
Cancer ABCs From Surviving To Thriving - How to Thrive with Cancer - June 28, 2018 04:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsJoel Nowak talks with Dr. Corrie Painter. who is an eight-year Cancer Thriver with Angiosarcoma, a very rare and lethal cancer of the interior of the blood vessels. Dr. Painter is a researcher with the Broad Institute of MIT and Dana Farber. She is instrumental in designing and executing the B...
The Angiosarcoma Project
Cancer ABCs From Surviving To Thriving - How to Thrive with Cancer - June 28, 2018 04:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsJoel Nowak talks with Dr. Corrie Painter. who is an eight-year Cancer Thriver with Angiosarcoma, a very rare and lethal cancer of the interior of the blood vessels. Dr. Painter is a researcher with the Broad Institute of MIT and Dana Farber. She is instrumental in designing and executing the B...
How a Drug Gets Developed and Tested
Cancer ABCs From Surviving To Thriving - How to Thrive with Cancer - June 28, 2018 04:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsJoel 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, Epi-506, is being tested on men with advanced, met...
How a Drug Gets Developed and Tested
Cancer ABCs From Surviving To Thriving - How to Thrive with Cancer - June 28, 2018 04:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsJoel 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, Epi-506, is being tested on men with advanced, met...
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