We have a winner.

I met with another onco doc yesterday. This one recommended by my uro doc whom I highly respect and I think I found my guy. For starters he walked in looking like young frankenstien with big old untrimmed 2 inch long eyebrows wearing a fat guy hawian shirt and reboks. He then told me he was not in charge of my care nor was he responsable for the results. I am. He said he would do whatever I desired to do. He would write outside prescriptions if kaiser would not fil;l them. He will send me to national cancer institute every time something is on the radar that may help me. He is the guy. Todd

Feeling good about a doc works for me.

living1963 said...
He then told me he was not in charge of my care nor was he responsable for the results. I am. He said he would do whatever I desired to do.

 

This helps to highlight for folks what the oncologist's role is.  He/she should present you with options, tell you about the side effects as well as the pros and cons of each option, offer his opinion (sometimes they offer this, other times only if you ask), and then say to you:  "OK, what do you want to do?"

It is absolutely your choice.

 

I had hope that the monkey was Off Todd's back ... now the journey begins .. or is that to the land of Oz.... and the winged monkeys...
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TODD - glad you are so relaxed and pleased with your doc - hoorah! - whatever course of action you take - it will be the right one for YOU.

hoorah again

hugs
BRONSON

Good to hear Todd I was wondering about you mi amigo. Nobody needs a Soup N_z_ type for an onco-doc or nurse for that matter. However, if the nurse is......... (never mind).
This gives you a chance to monitor psa's (you might wish to get them more often depending upon switching drugs, etc....as to find out if a drug is effective or not). You got alot of possible methods to fight PCa, some of them like these:

LHRH or GnRH (degarelix) - the 'deg.' is mentioned at www.hrpca.org (might work better)
Flutamides (casodex, nilandron, eulexin)
DES, estradiol patches or gel, emcyt (estrogenics)
HDK (keto either high dose or reg. dosages)
Abiraterone (in trials, coming soon maybe fast track approval)
Leukine (expensive shots, self injecting available) maybe no side effects
Thalidomide
Provenge or DCVax (this one is in trials currently)-vaccines

(other stuff used in the battle of PCa either with another drug or by themselves, partial list)

Megace, Strontium, Samarian, Phenoxodiol, Quadramet, Satraplatin, Valproic acid, Tamoxifin (chemos-various types or combos), Cabitzitaxel (more power chemo), Gleevec,
Vitaxin, Iressa, K0S-862, Xinlay, tarceva, Ertinolib, Alpaharadin, Apatone, Sulindac, Exisulind, IMC-A12, Ixempra, Epothilone, MDV3100, Noscapine, OGX-011

This is like being in Alice in Wonderland and a visit to the twilight zone, but we have choices to consider which is actually a good thing. I can see why the doc is open minded and relate to it also in my journey. Are you still working and did you recover fast from the last Lupron shot side effects??? Hope things go more smoothly for you.