Benign Tissue, PSA and Me- update

The gleason 6 is your ace in the hole, and of course if it is a recurrence, a very slow doubling time. Ride straight and carry on.

Could you ecplain what is the modified Meyers Cancer Light supplement plan?


Best regards

Well, I thought to post a new thread, subject title of "The Other Shoe Dropped" but decided to post here, to keep this thread together for those few (and you know who you are) that might still be interested or even remember this.

First, Rust, I am so sorry I missed your question back in Oct., I didn't intentionally ignore you. The rest of this post will answer your question, if it is still needed.

I got my latest psa results 2 weeks ago, .27, up from .25 four months ago and .21 eight months ago. So, even when trying the various alternative and supplement route, it still continued to rise, at a slow and steady rate, but rise, none the less. I talked with the rad onco in '10 , when it first rose from .04 to .06 and he wanted to wait until I got to the 2 tests above .20 to act. After this last one, my Uro and I felt it was time for me to revisit the Rad. doc, which I did last week. After much discussion and questions, we decided to begin IGRT SRT, 37 sessions- total of 66 grays (greys?) beginning Monday. I had my initial cat scan measurements and alignments done Wed., and I return Mon. for a final measuring, alignment and testing, with a first sessions scheduled an hour later. I get the infamous 3 tattoos after the first week, once they make sure the alignment is correct.

I approached this with a full awareness of the dangers of treatment, balancing the benefit versus the risks and decided it's worth more to do it than risk not doing anything until it possibily got free of the prostate bed or invaded the bladder. Key to this decision was the fact that the cancer cell location had been moved from the edge of the apex up to being sutured onto the neck of the bladder, increasing the risks of invasion of the bladder itself. In any case, I will be a little glow worm for a couple months. I will of course post anything out of the ordinary that may happen along the way.

Sorry to hear you need to go through this, but with your Gleason score, slow doubling time, long time to BCR and positive margin (which actually improves the chance of success of SRT), you have great odds of a cure with SRT. Best of luck!

Peter, I'll ask about the further sessions. Yep, I have to do the 16 oz. of liquid an hour before treatment. That shouldn't be a problem, but emptying the bowel may be more so. They are gonna pick my schedule Mon, from late morning to early afternoon, (I ain't no morning person). Yes, because of the location they want the bladder at least 3/4 full and the bowel near empty. Shouldn't be much of a problem, depending on their definition of what near empty is. Luckily I am in sight of the hospital, so it's just a 5 minutes drive there. I am gonna stock the 37 bottles of water in the pantry and use them for a countdown, like you. I didn't hear the .6 being used with the 66 so maybe I can avoid the mark of the beast.

James, sounds like a well thought out plan. I have every hope for you that it will be an uneventful trip for you through those 37 treatments. I did 35, 70Gy and only in the last two weeks did I have a little urgency and fatigue. To date I know of no side effects that have crept in and I completed mine in January 2010.

Best of luck to you and look forward to seeing you in NY in September.

Sonny