hi all. happy new year. may you all get good numbers this year. this is GG's wife. he is still recovering from eye surgery. we went to the oncologist. we were positively impressed. nothing new...
hi all. this is glass guy's wife. glass guy had eye surgery this week and can't see to get on the computer so i am checking things out for him. i just read all the posts and your signatures. pretty...
i even know about md anderson. just didn't think about it last night. and it would be closer than california. meantime i set up an appt with a urology-oncologist at vanderbilt university cancer...
hi tony. we're in tennessee. i am sending a fax with the biopsy results to loma linda this morning and telling them we are willing to come back to california if they can help. i also sent a self...
ok, i've spent the last hour reading on prostascint and as it happens i am having retinal surgery tomorrow at a hospital (about 85 miles from here) that does the procedure. good time to check out the...
thank you tony, bill and david. i am interested in where the prostascint scan is done. we traveled to loma linda for the proton therapy and we will travel again if necessary. no tony, we're not in...
went to the urologist today. got the results of the 6 core prostate biopsy. negative. should be good news but the latest psa was 16.37 - up 4 points from a month ago. dr. says "most likely" in the...
wrote about the rising psa. 12.8 in october; then 14., 16.37 now. bone scan and cat scan negative. now the biopsy came back negative. had hormone so future psa's will be reduced but still don't know...
April 2008 PSA .7 October 15 PSA 10.2 October 16 PSA 12.8 November 7 PSA 16.37 Can anyone think of a NON-cancerous reason for a 6 point rise in a three week period? The bone scan was negative. The...
based on what we have been reading we have postponed hubby's biopsy for a week. we are asking for a repeat psa and we'll see if it is still it's the 1800% increase and we are asking if a simple blood...
thanks tony for the info. the CT scan of the pelvis he just had lists "coarse calcification is present in the prostate gland". This is the very reason we were hesitant is agreeing to a biopsy. his...
di - SE?? pardon my ignorance. the abbreviation lingo is new to me. we were looking at cryo in case a salvage procedure is necessary. but before we even get to that point, hubby was even questioning...
hubby was treated 2 years ago with proton and regular radiation. also hormone therapy. recently he had two PSA's done - one 10.4, the other 12.8 (within 3 days of each other). had the pelvic CAT scan...
hi all thanks for the support. glass guy's wife here. you know what is so disconcerting? glass guy probably looks better and feels better than he has in a long time. we thought he was coming along...
debbie, you are the only person i've seen on here who has posted such a high rise in psa. my husband posted that his went up from .7 in april 08 to 12.8 this week (10/08). he's going through pelvic,...
thanks for answering. more of my details. i did have hormone therapy for a year. had the shots. and i had the full scale of proton 79.2 gy to the prostate and photon treatments, 45 gy to the pelvis....
Have been online reading for two days now and have never found my situation. Had proton treatment 2 years ago, gleason 7 (3+4) with PSA pretreatment at 13.5. Since treatment PSA's have always been...