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Cancer ABCs From Surviving To Thriving - How to Thrive with Cancer

Joel Nowak Cancer ABCs

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, su...

Episodes

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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 pr...

27:51Jun 9, 2022

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...

2:37Mar 21, 2022

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 experie...

6:09Aug 29, 2021

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 th...

7:54Aug 24, 2021

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 p...

26:41Jun 22, 2021

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 diagn...

12:38Apr 22, 2021

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 o...

25:51Dec 21, 2020

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...

6:53Oct 15, 2020

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 prostatecto...

27:16Jul 28, 2020

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 differen...

5:35Jul 15, 2020

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-trials Joel T Nowak interviews Em...

42:56Jul 6, 2020

Prostate Cancer Treatment in the COVID-19 Era

Written Transcript at: https://www.cancerabcs.org/transcript-pc-treatment-in-the-covid19-era Joel Nowak discusses how one doctor, Dr. Emmanu...

5:35May 13, 2020

Understanding the Real Survival Advantages Provided By Provenge (Sipuleucel-T) for Men with Metastatic Prostate Cancer

Written Transcript at: https://www.cancerabcs.org/transcript-provengesurvivaladvantage Dr. Tim Richardson talks with Joel Nowak talk about t...

42:19Sep 16, 2019

Prostate Cancer Surgical Incontinence Solutions

Written Transcript at: https://www.cancerabcs.org/transcript-urinary-incontinence-post-radical-prostatectomy-solutions Joel Nowak discusses...

13:31Aug 30, 2019

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-surveillance Mr. Anson Tharayanil, a Medical...

21:40Jul 19, 2019

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-erlead...

28:47Jul 3, 2019

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/tran...

40:35May 23, 2019

Mark Hall's Metastatic Prostate Cancer Journey with Dr. Snuffy Meyers and Provenge (sipuleucel-T)

Written Transcript at: https://www.cancerabcs.org/transcript Mark Hall was diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer with a PSA of 4,400 and...

30:54May 16, 2019

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, b...

9:25Mar 31, 2019

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 c...

42:51Mar 13, 2019