Find your way in. This site was built for where you are right now.

The site contains a lot. The six paths below are a way in, organised around where you currently are in your journey.

01

Newly Diagnosed
Overwhelmed
You have just received the news, and the weight of it has arrived before any real understanding has. The biology is less frightening than the diagnosis made it feel. Start here.
• —Prostate Cancer: A Calm and Intelligent Guide — Part 1, The Patient's Guide
• —Quiet Biology: A Primer
• —What PSA Really Measures
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02

Active Surveillance
Watching
Disease is present, but for most men it will remain exactly where it is. The evidence for careful observation over immediate intervention is substantial and often undertold. Start here.
• —Mutations Provide Potential, but Environment Determines Expression
• —PSA Kinetics and the Natural History of Prostate Cancer
• —Tumour Ecology and Evolutionary Stability
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03

Rising PSA After Treatment
Recurrence
PSA is moving after surgery or radiation. The numbers are real, but the biology behind them is more varied — and more manageable — than a rising figure alone suggests. Start here.
• —PSA Kinetics and the Natural History of Prostate Cancer
• —A Hierarchy of Biological Signals — phase-transition criteria
• —Testosterone, p53, and the MDM2 System
• —The White Paper — theoretical and empirical foundation for the framework
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04

Advanced or Metastatic Disease
Refractory
You are dealing with more extensive disease and have likely been through multiple lines of treatment. The biology here is complex, but it is not arbitrary. Understanding what the tumour has adapted to is where the next decision begins. Start here.
• —Cancer as an Ecological and Evolutionary System
• —Dynamic Fitness Landscapes and Evolutionary Constraint
• —B7-H3 as an Adaptive Surface Phenotype
• —The Three Layers of Intervention
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05

Partner or Family
Supporting
You are trying to understand what the person you love is facing, and how to support them through it. The biology matters to you because it matters to them. This is where to begin. Start here.
• —For Partners — from Part 1 of A Calm and Intelligent Guide
• —Quiet Biology: A Primer — the foundational ideas in plain language
• —Prostate Cancer: A Calm and Intelligent Guide — written for both the man and the people beside him
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06

Clinician or Deep Reader
Researching
You want the full scientific framework and its supporting papers. The argument is built across twenty-four papers in two collections, with a white paper setting out the theoretical foundation. Everything is freely available. Start here.
• —The White Paper — theoretical and empirical foundation for the framework
• —The complete Quiet Biology Framework series — twenty-four papers, one download
• —The Three Layers of Intervention — the protocol architecture in full
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