I see you are in Ontario and under the age of 65. The Ontario Drug Benefit (ODB) pays drug costs for over 65 seniors (and a couple of other categories of people), provided the drug is in the...
Hi, Steve, You might get a better response to your question from the Yahoo group on advanced prostate cancer . Also I think Zufus pointed out the articles published by Joel Nowak on Malecare . He...
Hi, Steve, From a previous post, I know you are recently bereaved. If you don't already belong to a support group, have you looked into any local PCa groups that might be available to you? Some of...
If you want to read the article in Circulation , it is available here . (Found through a Pubmed search). The summary seems less conclusive than the text you quote. The writing group thus believes at...
http://clinicaltrials.gov/ -gives background info, and allows you to search by condition/location. Not sure if this is what you are looking for. Wishing you all the best!...
Just an FYI - the doctor in the Philadelphia VA brachytherapy case was an "outside contractor" from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. NY Times story is here . Regards, AprilS...
Not for the squeamish, I guess. Living in an older home, without an ensuite, we approached the nighttime frequency, urgency with an old-fashioned concept - the jerry pot or chamber pot. Actually, it...
Hi, Hubby's Advocate, (Sorry, long again.) Another couple of articles that might help answer your question: Is There a Standard of Care for Pathologic Stage T3 Prostate Cancer? - an analysis from...
Found the following quotation from Mayo Clinic Proceedings, February 2007, which supports Jerry1's post. Ultimately, the decision to start androgen ablation therapy in the setting of biochemical...
Mel, Sorry that your pathology report proved so worrisome for you. Searching PubMed, I found this article, dating from Jan.18, 2010, which differs a little from Dr. Catalona's study: Tumor Percent...
Hi, JB, My husband and I are also from Sarnia. He had open RP locally on January 14. He had two scheduled home visits by a nurse assigned by the CCAC (more, if he had needed them.) I believe you can...
This is certainly encouraging news for brachytherapy patients. However, as has been pointed out, the devil is in the details. This is a retrospective review with stringent criteria applied after the...
I think this was one of the articles referenced in the discussion above: [b] Flaxseed supplementation (not dietary fat restriction) reduces prostate cancer proliferation rates in men presurgery [/b]...
To cheries: Total newbie here, on the distaff side, but I have been researching different treatments. Your last question was about PSA levels after HiFu. While not giving an explanation, the...