Thanks for the heads up! This is a good site for advice. The reason for the short HT is that this is a clinical study where they are evaluating whether adding HT to Rad will make a long term...
I might be going thru 16 weeks of HT before and during radiation therapy(1 shot of Lupron + daily Casodex). How bad are the side effects? Did they stop you from exercise or fishing? Thanks!...
The moderator is right - they'll retest. However, if it's above 0.1, they'll want to radiate the pelvis. The treatment these days is good, and if you hit it early and hard you'll be OK. This is VERY...
Rigagirl, I'm a prostate cancer patient as was my father. One possible reason your father's PSA dropped to zero was his very high Gleason score. Many of those high scores, and some lower scores, my...
Thanks for the encouraging results. I see many. many men have gone thru IMRT. I guess I can do it too....
My signature line left out the latest PSA 0.13. Thanks!...
My PSA jumped up again and now it's off to Salvage Radiation. So! how did it go? Was it worth it? Did it bat the beast down and for how long? Thanks for any and all responses....
41! My post op PSA's have been 0.07, 0.04, 0.08 etc. Any thing below .1 is considered 0.00. My GP told me that he has 12 or so patients he's refereed for surgery and ALL of us have some detectable...
Take a deep breath. Your PSA is still pretty low. You'll just have to go thru testing and be ever so glad your PSA isn't 200+ (Or worse); or that you don't have pancreatic, brain, bone, lung, or...
Don't smoke, Don't drink. Eat a vegan diet. Get massive amounts of exercise, sunshine and stress reduction. All the medical studies are controversial on whether it will mitigate PC or not, but it...
I had an interesting talk with a nurse who works at Mountain States Tumor Institute here in Boise this weekend. She asked how my PSA testing was going and I told her (See below). She was skeptical of...
Just got my PSA test results back -> 0.07. For some this would be cause for panic, but for me it's great news. I had a jump from less than 0.04 to 0.08 last February and it caused me and Doc some...
UPDATE: Got my PSA results: 0.08 again. Doc thinks that since my first and last 2 test results were that same level it may be that my blood chemistry may just evaluate to 0.08 more than 0.04. If it's...
CS53, I understand your fears. Most of us do. Take Heart! 1) You are very lucky to have such superior medical care. If you're able to go to Loma Linda and see Dr. Sholtz, you are in great hands. Try...
CS53, I doubt hormonal therapy would kill of every single Micro Met. The best treatment is to do whatever it takes in the short term to achieve a complete remission then maintain the remission in the...
How do the Docs find Micro-Mets? I'm guessing that a good surgeon could biopsy the lymph nodes in your back or a pull of the bone marrow, but I'm guessing here. Anyone with experience with Micro-Met...
UPDATE: Changed my PSA test to May 12th. Sister-in-law died and I don't want to subject my wife to any more bad news this week....
CS53, If you can get Proton, I've heard that it's less damaging than conventional IRMT. It's good you are close to Loma Linda. If my next PSA test comes back progressively higher, than I'm looking at...
Everyone, Thanks for the good advice! I'm getting another PSA test this week and hopefully it's back at absolute zero. If not, I'll re-evaluate my options. I agree with the "Hit it Hard, Hit it...
I had DaVinci Surgery in May 2007. Pathology was excellent. Gleason 6, No Lymph node involvement, no sem. vess. involvement, all PCa confined to the capsule. Total PCa less than 5%. No trouble with...