About Us

PSA Rising provides prostate cancer news, information and support. Our mission, since 1997, is to:

• Inform the public about early detection of prostate cancer.
• Help affected men and their partners cope with diagnosis, treatment choices, side effects, possible recurrence and systemic cancer.
• Bring reliable news of medical advances and support survivors' quest for quality of life.

Prostate cancer is the deadliest cancer in men next to lung cancer. This year in the USA alone, prostate cancer is expected to cause the death of 29,900 men. These men will have lived for years with advancing illness, which may have caused them significant pain and suffering. Hundreds of thousands of other men live with side effects of prostate cancer treatments and with concern about recurrence.

According to the American Cancer Society's Statistics for 2004:

• Cancer is the leading cause of death in men aged 60 to 79
• Cancer is the leading cause of death in Americans under age 65
• African American men have 40 percent higher mortality from all cancers combined compared with White men
• Among men, prostate, lung, and colon cancers account for more than half (55 percent) of all newly diagnosed cancers
• Prostate cancer is expected to account for a third (33 percent) of cancers in men.
• In the USA today, nearly nine in ten prostate cancers (86 percent) will be diagnosed at a localized stage, when the five-year relative survival rate is 100 percent.
• Prostate cancer incidence rates continue to increase, in part due to increased screening through PSA tests.

How to make sense of these statistics? Although incidence rates have continued to increase, cancer death rates for men in the USA have decreased by 1.5 percent per year since 1992. Death rates continued to drop for the top three cancer killers in men (cancers of the lung, colon and prostate). As men have come to learn more about prostate cancer and to seek early detection and quality care, the better their chance of surviving this disease.

The online prostate cancer support and survivor community demonstrates that men who are recently diagnosed and men living with advanced prostate cancer are incredibly generous when it comes to sharing what they know and asking for what they need. As was said about one of their number, Jim Fulks, they believe in "living out loud." PSA Rising is proud to have grown out of this community and to remain a part of it.

We aim to help make existing care and pipeline advances accessible to all patients. We aim to report from a patient-centered, evidence-based standpoint. We call attention to special needs of African-American men, who have higher rates of prostate cancer. We call attention also to improved pain management resources and end-of-life care. We seek to help patients and caregivers build communities of support, empowerment and compassion.

As part of this mission, PSA Rising offers an array of selected, unpaid links to recognized cancer centers and cancer support sources as well as maintaining forums and e-mail response services for visitors.

Paid advertising decisions are kept separate from editorial content and news placement. All advertisements are marked as such. Please read our content policy and medical disclaimer.

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Jacqueline Strax

Site Reviews

Selected as one of the best web sites, Independent reviewers rated PSA Rising first for "accuracy, ease of navigation, relevance, updates and completeness" among "for-profit web sites with specific content related to prostate cancer."

Reviewers were Dr. Neil Abraham (Cleveland Clinic) and Dr. David Bostwick (Bostwick Labs and U of Virginia). Their article "Prostate Cancer on the Internet: Review 2002," is published in Prostate Cancer: Science and Clinical Practice by Jack Mydlo, Ciril J. Godec, Academic Press, 2003.

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Thanks

Special thanks to Burns Mixon, Wendy Dyer, George Orick and Gigi, Mary Bayer, Nancy Peress, Jack Beaven, Ralph Valle, Gary Huckabay, Ed Price, Aubrey Pilgrim, Jerry Bostick, Don Cooley, Virgil Simons, Antonio Vallone, Elizabeth Buie, Howard Waage, Pete Wilson, Harry Pinchot, Fred Mills Jr., Steve Corman, Sandra Weinhardt, Mario Menelly, Katherine Meade, Marília Coutinho & Gláucio Soares, David Narwocki, Maynard Berkowitz, Gary Elgort, Jim Fulks, Mary Lou Wright, Rick Ward, Dave Grundy, Bob Shiell, Sterling Greenwood, Ric Masten, Molly Sower Sugarmen, Sipora, Bill Donnelly, Robert Young, Lucy Sacks, Lenny Hirsch and Jonathan Baker.

This page compiled by J. Strax, last updated Jnauary 13, 2007

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In memory of
Norman Strax

Inventor, physicist, folk-singer, activist, teacher, lover, friend, husband.
1935 - 2002.