I think this Op-Ed from the NYT last year by Dr. Richard Albin refers to what you heard on the radio: NY Times, March 9, 2010 THE GREAT PROSTATE MISTAKE EACH year some 30 million American men undergo...
Well, you may be right. The bill for my biopsy was a little north of $5K. Not bad for a 30-minute in-office procedure....
F8, Not looking for an argument. I'm glad I did what I did. I just think it all needs to be taken into consideration....
Eye4, I was diagnosed a year ago with a PSA of 4.3 (1 of 12 cores, 15% involvement, Gleason 3+3=6, T1c, normal DRE). A week after diagnosis I eliminated all dairy from my diet and in six weeks my PSA...
Men taking statins (also shown to lower the risk of PCa recurrence) should use caution when taking pomegranate juice as it interferes similar to grapefruit juice with drugs like Lipitor, Crestar, and...
Hola, Pablo I understand your anxiety but I think it might be misplaced. From what you've described you seem to be suffering from a series of either urinary infections, a chronic prostate condtion...
You probably don't want the dog doing you're next DRE....
Alliemarie, I'm sorry your son is facing this situation at his age. The good news for you is that he was diagnosed early and the initial Gleason score and overall pathology indicates a relatively low...
TTaylor, I had radiation (CyberKnife) as a primary treatment for my Gleason 6, stage T1c prostate cancer in July. While deciding on a treatment I researched several different types of radiation. The...
Mholiday, Let me add my welcome to the forum as well. One of the options you mentioned was CyberKnife and I chose that as my treatment course with a 3+3=6 Gleason, PSA of 4.3, 1 of 12 cores positive...
I have four gold markers (fiducials) in my prostate from my session with CyberKnife. I go through metal detectors at least twice a week in my frequent air travel between the coasts. No problem....
Speaking of CyberKnife, has anyone chosen to have it? It seems to promise the benefits and cure rate of traditional radiation therapies with some likelihood of fewer side effects due to better...
Hi, Julie. If you're considering radiation there is a twist on the suggestions you have been given so far that you may wish to check out on your own. In June I received stereotactic body radiation...
Hi, skapod. It may just be a lab glitch and you might want to have it redone to be sure. About a third of men who have RP will see a measurable recurrence of prostate cancer even if there were...
Juliet, I suspect that you and your husband are feeling like information overload and it's only just begining. The follow-up appointment with your urologist will be an important first step in...
It seems that you have already made up your mind on this one and I hope you find a surgeon that fits your needs but it just seems to me that your PCa is pretty much the "low risk" category except for...
You may also wish to investigate CyberKnife radiation treatment which has many of the advantages of convenience and dosage concentration in the prostate....
Thor, you have many good options with that pathology. I think the "gold standard" is whatever the doctor your consulting with at the moment has for a specialty. You may wish to check out Cyberknife...
Retire, My PSA dropped from 4.3 at Dx to 2.8 just before treatment after I eliminated dairy from my diet. It does give you pause. Although older than you I had a similar pathology after biopsy but...
While I have a great deal of sympathy for those men seeking these drugs at the lowest possible price, I wonder at the overall ethics of using this forum for a discussion for ways one might circumvent...
Yikes, this takes the concept of over-treatment to a whole new level. If your BIL had headaches, I would hate to see what the doctor would recommend...cut his head off? I would think that a TURP is a...
Blue Moon: I didn't use proton considered it seriously. During my consult with Loma Linda here in Southern California the doctor indicated that there are a small percentage of patients that do...
normek said...Kongo. I'm not an expert in the nanograms but it says to enter the psa results of the last 12 MONTHS or all psa results after surgery. I don't think this nonogram is intended to be used...
Hey, Larry. The semen travels from the testes to the seminal vesicles via the Vas deferens tube. It doesn't go to the bladder. If the seminal vesicles were removed during surgery, I think they would...
normek said...Kongo, help me out here, how did you come up with your numbers, the psa increase is 1.19 in six months? Normek...the numbers came out of a Sloan Kettering Cancer Center nomogram that...
Optimist, I wouldn't be worrying just yet. You have a very long PSA doubling time and a very slow PSA velocity (calculated from the Sloan Kettering nomogram)...
Min, Wow...as we're similar ages with not too different pathologies, I just don't understand your comment about several radiologists saying you were too young for radiation and had to have surgery. I...
Dream, Has your doctor considered the possibility that the Lupron you're on now may have failed to control the generation of testosterone and that he should consider another drug? For many men, some...
Retire, Obviously its your decision but if I were in your shoes I would be conulting with more than your surgeon (who is going to recommend surgery) and an oncologist (most of whom recommend...
If you haven't done it already, you may wish to add soy milk products as a protein source. It has about the same amount of protein as cow's milk. Like you, I eliminated all dairy and red meat from my...
You may be referring to PC-SPES (spes is latin for hope) that was a combination of several herbs from a Chinese pharmacy. Initial testing found that it had varying degrees of effectiveness in PCa...
While you're at MD Anderson, you might also want to check out the Cyberknife procedure which is administered there for prostate cancer. It's another option that might be appropriate for your...
I wish you well with your decision to have surgery but am curious as to why you chose that over radiation or AS? Your cancer seems early stage with several options available that would promise...
An, One thing that you can be thankful for is that your husband's diagnosis indicates a very early stage, low grade cancer. I was diagnosed in March with very similar pathology and learned through an...
Vam, Cyberknife will treat a Gleason 7. To be in a study protocol you have to have a Gleason <7, PSA at DX < 10, and relatively minor biopsy involvement. I was diagnosed in March and went...
Jerry, sorry to hear the news. Frequently radiation has a "bounce" where there is an initial decline then a rise before falling back to a nadir. Not sure if this applies in your case or not but...