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Age| Life Quality| Prostate Cancer

This study examined moderating effects of age on longitudinal associations among quality of life (QOL) and its demographic (e.g., age), clinical [e.g., prostate-specific antigen (PSA) level], and affective and cognitive predictors (i.e., distress, worries about recurrence, decisional regret, subjective life expectancy) in prostate cancer patients treated with external beam radiation (N = 391).
Demographic and clinical [...]

Prostate Cancer| Hypoxia

My father-in-law is 86 years old, lives in rural North Carolina with recurrent prostate cancer, PSA 287! He is not responsive to present and past treatments.
He is basically in good functional status although he has a multitude of other chronic medical problems. Presently able to be useful to himself, his ailing wife [...]