Hmm..just sharing what I was told. A doctor I consulted for my dad's issue said if you see a few bone mets on the scan, it means the cancer has spread. You can see the larger ones on the scan....
Thanks for everyone's well wishes and advice! Glad to hear that its working for most of you guys! Its really scary that there's nothing we can do but wait for the HT to work (or fail eventually)....
There are folks on this forum with low PSA but metastatic spread, and folks with high PSA without spread. I am wondering if there's a pattern and if free PSA and not total PSA, is the true indicator...
Thanks guys I can understand its a difficult decision but my dad seems to have made up his mind based on what he has read. It could affect him down the line, perhaps, and its irreversible, but right...
Thanks folks. So if I understand correctly, orchiectomy or the ADT/HT achieve the same results. After that, we just wait for the PSA to rise before we try something new. On some level, it feels...
Hello all My dad's scans came back and it looks like it has spread to the bones :( although lymph nodes are not enlarged. Its been a tough week for us. My dad is thinking about getting a bilateral...
Thanks Chris. That's good to hear that your testosterone level stayed below 20 with Lupron+Casodex because that seems to be the most commonly prescribed LHRH combo. Serene...
I found a very interesting article about HT...I thought it might be helpful here. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2725306/#!po=50.0000 My dad is waiting on his scan results but based on...
Are you doing a free PSA test in addition to a PSA only test? If the free PSA/total PSA %age is above 10 it could be because of BPH or prostatitis. <10 indicates it could be PCa. Has that been ruled...
Thanks for your replies. Yes MRI they both agreed they needed to wait 3 weeks post-biopsy. We will be doing that mid-Oct. CT Scan is where they differed....
Hello all Question for you folks that have been through this. My dad is recently diagnosed with Pca and we have consulted 2 docs. One is recommending a Bone and CT scan right away. The other...
I ask because I read somewhere that the primary tumor releases something called angiostatin that prevents smaller metastasis from growing blood supply vessels. However when the primary tumor is...
Thank you JohnT and InTheShop. I really appreciate your replies. I'm researching all these scans you mentioned. In case it has spread does surgery have any negative effect in terms of the ability to...
The biopsy was TRUS guided, I assume, to cover the doubtful areas but nothing is mentioned on the report....
Hello Everyone This is only my 2nd post. My dad was just diagnosed with PCa via biopsy. His PSA is 27, Biopsy result: Right lobe 10/10 benign Left lobe 10/10 Gleason 7(4+3) 90% of each core. He has...
Thanks for your reply hopefuldaughter. My dad is still in the diagnosis stage. His PSA is 27-30 and the left lobe has a tumor that is malignant (Gleason 7 (4+3) and right lobe 10/10 are benign)...
I am also a hopeful daughter. Do you mind me asking long your dad was taking his Hormone treatment before it stopped working? Thanks....