I agree...this is one of the best moderated sites online...
Agreed, halbert. The dismissal of the seriousness of aggressive treatments is troubling. Not only is the procedure significant, but the number and frequency and severity of side effects is stunning....
I can participate in this hypothetical discussion...as I best understand the scenario you have described. I'll quote the Declaration of Independence: We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all...
Thank you for the update, and for the embedded reminder that men who have received treatment should be diligent about monitoring their status as prescribed by their physicians. So sorry that you lost...
TJ, sorry to hear that, buddy....
Your comment is well-taken, RobLee. I know in some cases I've seen guys starting out their posts with a general apology...something like, " Having read about so many of the very serious advanced PC...
I hear ya, TJ. Reading back thru all my posts in that thread, I certainly wasn't expecting to get attacked for my simple suggestion/request...a request that others here at this site have also...
That's not correct. They don't look at the whole gland in post-surgical pathology, but a lot more of it gets looked at than in the small sampling done via needle biopsy....
So, you're right about the general consensus on when to move from AS to treatment (based on expert panel AS recommendations LINK ). * 3+4 is fine continuing on AS as long as the volume of Gleason...
I'm not sure your results say you have a "large [high volume would be the term you are looking for] G6 tumor." Am I not correct in summarizing your May fusion biopsy procedure by highlighting that...
You know what...I realized I didn't say "please." My apologies...that is unlike me. Please add a comment or opinion which adds value rather than just posting a link...everyone will appreciate it....
I'm clearly not a whiner...I'm not going to shoot an email off to the moderators whining that Pratoman flamed me. I'd rather it stay up to show clearly how low one stoops when their position is weak...
You betcha. It's an annoyance when someone posts links without any value-added comment, sending the message that, "I think that my time is more valuable than yours...here's something I stumbled...
Look, hrpufnstuf...ibuprofen, if anything, lowers (or "masks") PSA. Ejaculation results in a short term surge in PSA. Opposite effects. Get it? [white]...
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Ok What did you find to be most informative or relevant (or "exciting") amongst the links you provided?...
BTW, a quick jump, or an indication of up and down PSA, is usually a sign of something going on other than prostate cancer (in other words, one of the benign causes of PSA). That's not to say that...
I would like to be clear, Joker, that it's too early to jump to conclusions. But, that being said, 0.18 is higher than it should be. There's a number of possible explanations, but they pretty much...
Follow-up as he has suggested. If you had said your result was 0.018 I would have said "normal/expected." But 0.18 is higher than expected. (Did you double check those decimal points? An initial...
You certainly are hungry for information, aren't you...! No screening test is perfect. The performance of a screening test is determined in part by the cut point utilized. This is the value that...
Beth, only you (and I suppose the moderators) can edit the title of your thread. Go back to your first posting in the thread and click on the pen/edit icon in the upper right corner. You can then...
So does this mean that your doctor wants to re-test again in a month? I think that would be wise, but I would wait until then. [white]...
A couple things to know about in advance ... (1) There are several non-cancerous (benign) reasons why one's PSA may be elevated at any particular time. Key amongst those is BPH (you did already...
8-weeks will be fine. You can plug your own numbers into the calculation methodology I did earlier and demonstrate to yourself... The link alephnull pointed to confirmed the assumptions (thanks,...
TBD...the best guidance is the age-adjusted PSA thresholds, plus you own personal history. What was your test result?...
I fully agree with halbert. *Your pre-op PSA was 2.4, and 8 weeks (or about 56 days) have passed *The trauma from surgery causes a "surge" of PSA in the bloodstream...let's say it shot up to 10 ng/mL...
That's quite an interesting and revealing post, Domino95. You're in your mid-60s. You've had a prostatectomy. You've had salvage radiation therapy. And you've had intermittent chemical castration. I...
I agree gmoose2 that there's an unfortunate irony in Movember. You get a "pass." Yours is not apathy....
The law around disclosure of PC has been accurately stated here already. No, and I would not recommend freely offering that information, either. And there's especially no need to do so for your 3+3...
Indeed. Appropriate....
You are kidding...right? Right? (Let's just let that soak in for a minute.)...
The original question of "How many men in US live with metastatic prostate cancer?" got answered via back-of-napkin calculation (which is different BTW than a SWAG) — about 100K . We also explored a...
Yeah, that's kinda goofy...
The short answer, hrpufnstuf, is that ejaculation and bike riding raises PSA in the blood only a little, but poking a bunch of holes in the prostate raises PSA in the blood a lot. A couple of Mayo...
negligible...
Not all advice is good advice. As I said before, a 58-year old man should be having annual physical exams—that exam is the right time to discuss your PSA history and PSA testing with your physician,...
I think that a separate thread from some of you guys with advanced cases airing your experiences with [u]shared decision making on PSA testing would be interesting. Just because the professional...
I'm genuinely sorry about your advanced case. I know intimately about advanced, metastatic cancer cases. If I was in your shoes, I might also have your "It's all about me" and "to hell with you"...
I'm going to sit this one out. I participated in the first 2 rounds of the HW/PC Book Club, and signed up for this 3rd round and downloaded the book, but it not hold my interest and so I didn't get...
There is no uniform "rule" regarding how many days to abstain from sex & biking, but the general rule of thumb for both is "several days" for each based on data collected on the rise (variable) from...
Most urologists who are most knowledgeable about AS—the programs tracking and publishing literature on years of study results—are now recommending exiting AS once Gleason pattern 4 is predominant in...
I forgot...you asked a question about nomograms... Everything below 0.05 ng/mL (like all your results) is " undetectable " for the SRT nomograms. The lowest detectable limits may vary from...
"informed" and "informed consent" are two completely different things....
Great result. Now you can put your unwarranted PC worries behind you and get on with life. Worry is obviously making matters worse for yourself. Prostate cancer, like many (not all) cancers, thrives...
You know what surprises me? Lack of participation in MOVEMBER here at HW/PC. It's not for a lack of awareness. It's apathy. When the predominant comment is, "Oh, no, I wouldn't look good in a...
That's a completely separate conversation...and has nothing whatsoever to do with the public health stats. However, since you are now switching topics again, the subject of why men with low-risk...
If you don't understand statistics, then it's hard to have this conversation......
Makes no difference how an individual "feels" about it... BTW, here's the back-of-napkin estimate on today's PC overtreatment in the US... * Published VA/Dartmouth report in 2005 estimated 1.3...
"...for them," or how any individual "feels" about it has nothing, however, to do with it when accounting for public health statistics. You guys want to start another thread instead...? You seem to...