thanks for your response on the drive and the radiation. i thought i had put to receive the responses via email but they didnt come in and only saw these today.....
we are considering salvage radiation even though they say there is possiblity that it is not localized. we are about an hour from where we receive radiation. will this be too much travel every day...
my updated profile didnt take so am replying again to see if it shows, if not it was 12/29/09 post op PSA .050 3/21/10 PSA .63 7/6/10 PSA .102...
The surgeon met with my husband and I after our 3rd consecutive rise in PSA post op in less than a year. we went from .50 to .102 in a little over 6 months and she said that the less than 6 months...
i am doing some research on apricot kernels. i know oasis of hope uses them in their treatment, of course there is so much out there. i found this letter and just wanted to know what everyone thought...
thanks everyone, i have learned so much from this website. my 3rd post surgery rose to .050 and i didnt know anything from the intern that spoke to me about the need to wait and the 'doubling factor'...
so does it always mean the cancer is returning if your psa goes up after surgery....undetectable for 3 tests and now .050 and they said possible some cancer cells escaped during surgery and will need...
Hi Michael, thanks for your response...how do i get notified by email when someone answers my posts......
what is IMRT and how do you receive treatments. is it on weekly basis for a certain period of time? is it best option once you have had surgery and the PSA starts creeping back up again......
So we thought we were rounding the bend in the zero club also but 10 months post op got the PSA results yesterday that went from undetectable to .050. need to go back in 3 months and then they will...
Hi his dose is 50 mg 2 x a day....i called his doc and he said he needs to be seen but we live 7 hours away...but the doc also said could be dehydration or anemia so we will work on that until our...
My husband had double bypass surgery in august 2008, he has been doing fine but for the last 3 weeks especially around bedtime i can feel his heart beating just lying next to him in bed and we take...
Hi all, just got my first post op PSA....the doc said "undetectable" which is anywhere from .0 to .03, so i said i would take that as a 0. still leaking like a sieve and flacid as a wet noodle but...
i started having it seemed 100's of palpitations a day about 6 months ago...well i did some surfing the net cuz the docs wanted to put me in diltiazem...after reading the side effects i said no...
Got cath out and pathology report today. Their report was no lymph node nor seminal vesicle involvement, but as i looked at below report it seemed to say differently as far as lymph node involvement....
i am doing better today, i heard that the davinci surgery did cause some swelling, great stuff you learn here...how are you doing...
thanks for your all your answers...i am in mexico at the moment (recovering at home) and so a 7 hour trip north is not really what i want to do...my appointment is tues 2/17/09...hopefully cath out...
i am 7 days out on my davinci surgery, some abdominal swelling, is this normal?...
I had surgery 7 days ago, da vinci...i noticed quite a bit of swelling in abdomen today...is this normal...
why do you say Gerbe, that most men live 15 years after prostate cancer...if you are only 50 that is not very long....if cancer removed, why short lifespan...
thanks for bumping up the thread...how do i find out the drs reputation other than from what he says...the dr has quite the bio, but only 50 davincis......
no sure how to go to pws1 thread...
hi all, thanks for your answers. we found a surgeon, Dr Liao at Palo Alto VA that is with Stanford. they do the davinci and will do my husband if he is released by his cardiologist due to having open...
hi again, the hardest part is that steve just had open heart surgery 3 months ago...that is how we found out about the cancer......
Hi Tony, thanks for the reply... we have the numbers so far they are Gleeson 3+4 9 out of 12 cores positive 6 of 6 on left side but they said 30% 3 of 6 on right side 13 % psa 7.71 at least a t2 we...
So i just accidently ignored someone and dont know how to unignore...just joined today......
my husband just was diagnosed with prostate cancer and is considering brachytherapy...how is your husband doing? :confused:...
just got the news i have prostate cancer...dont really know where to begin gleeson score 3+4 9 out of 12 postive all 6 in the left 3 in the right psa 7.7 dont have option of robotic or cryotherapy...