Archives: July 2016

• Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer Remains Difficult to Stop

  July 24, 2016
  While many of the men diagnosed with prostate cancer in the coming year will find their form of the disease is relatively easy to treat and most likely quite survivable, that is not always the case. Men who find they have metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer are likely to learn their survival chances are slim. There are a number of...read more

• Folate Deficiency and Multiple Myeloma

  July 15, 2016
  While folate deficiency’s full role in the development of multiple myeloma remains unclear, research is showing that this condition tends to go hand-in-hand with this blood-based form of cancer. A recent study found that the frequency of folate deficiency among patients with multiple myeloma was about 14 percent. This finding raises some alarm bells for researchers who say folate...read more