K-ray liked your reply (LOL)
why sugar coat and wear blinders to what goes on.
Let me give you an example of how 'practicing medicine' went down with a friend of mine whom is a member of this forum not long ago and can only read but not post now.
Mr. Ohio State 
had an awful case of PCa and many docs blew it on his diagnosis and treatments, they had agendas that trumped what he wanted. Here is his deal: went to GP in the beginning and not fully checked for psa or PCa screening, later developed urinary issues and went to uro-doc whom upon starting biopsies, got a call to be somewhere else stat, so he left in the middle of 1st biopsy and likely a resident or newbie (idiot) took over with no supervision (he found out such), 2nd biopsy the needle bent (or broke?), and biopsies were aborted. So, no real pathology revealed that one could analyze, he had urinary blockage so bad that full time catheter was his salvation and put in. Have you ever heard of abort biopsies because they could handle it????
He wore this catheter and unchanging it because his PCa apparently was into his bladder area and helping to make removal a problem (confirmed by doc I guess). So, gets an opinion without a pathology report but based upon ultra sound, psa level, positive DRE and other things, and doc wants to gut him out: prostate removal, bladder removal and go for the "home run" which would have no guarantees at all. Well he basically read some of my fun posts back in 2008 and started to question these docs all being 'experts'? So he told this doc goodbye, mean while his psa went to 130 and no docs ever putting him on HT or casodex or Lupron. He had no insurance but the State could somehow pay, well next doc put him through scannings he could bill to the state (nothing seen too), next his nurse told him zoladex was going to cost like $3500 (he didn't have it), finally doc says he can get the State to pay for it somehow but that this is his only HT, no casodex prior. Nurse also says flat out if you don't take this injection you will die (LOL). Good sales tactic probably endorse by AMA
Well he didn't like the zoladex plan and walked out. He came from Ohio to Michigan and we met, I told him about my onco-doc whom runs PCa seminars with real information (not a sales pitch session), Ohio was here to see Dr. Fred Lee for color doppler sonogram and some kind of analysis of his PCa, which I told him about Paactusa.org a patient advocacy group (they actually help people without insurance etc.) so he got a special deal from Dr. Lee via the Paact group... Lee-whom said it was one of the worse cases he has seen and he recommended Dr. Leibowitz (whom he could not afford anyway). So since Dr. Lee has seen plenty of cases....his case is serious stuff.
Well his psa was doubling every month now, so his real psa could have been around 200 or so and he doesn't want LHRH drugs. So, at my seminar my onco-doc talks to him and hears his situation and asks why nobody had put him on HT therapy and was happy to assist him in getting casodex instead. So, he got casodex asap, used it for 1 year and psa dropped to near undetectable levels and so now over 1 year he has been off of it and no drugs, just monitoring psa and so far stable and good. (GO FIGURE) Also, my onco-doc told him the catheter that was like way over 4 months old would likely fall out on its own because of the casodex attacking the PCa cells and shrinking the growth around the tube......'it happened exactly as he stated' and Ohio is peeing like a race horse ever since and no problems. He is continuing his psa's and monitoring and could resume casodex or try other drugs in the future. Gee he went against freakin 'experts' and is doing very well and has quality of life....how ridiculous. With his high risk analysis too, casodex so far has been excellent. Thought some people might like examples. 
Why not know some facts that are hidden. (LOL) 
Best to you, you have a heads up on the twilight zone world of HT therapies.
Post Edited (zufus) : 8/12/2011 4:50:25 PM (GMT-6)