My takeaway on these studies: 1. Whole milk is better for you than skim milk. This is probably because whole milk is balanced, as many calories from fat as from sugar, blunting insulin response which...
I had SBRT, five fractions in February 2015, UCSD Dr. Mundt. On the 5th day I realized on arrival, that I forgot to do the Fleets Enema. I thought, just ask the nursing staff for one at the facility....
Yep, one node discovered by C11-Acetate scan. Zeros since SBRT (February 2015). Also investigated surgery, but surgeon said risk too great for collateral damage given intestines nearby, plus...
Same here re Casodex. Liver blood panel went through the roof, but all I had to do was cut dosage in half. With recent PSA of 0.2, this early in your disease cycle, not likely liver mets, IMO; thank...
You have received some excellent imaging it sounds. Ask your medical team if the size of the lymph node spot detected is appropriate for your PSA reading. If so, then ask them to consider spot...
The Warburg story is interesting. He did win a Nobel prize, but once DNA was discovered along with sequencing, Warburg and cell metabolism as a cancer cause was set aside. We may have lost 20 years...
PCRI 2016, Dr. Mark Embarton (from UK) Dr. Embarton flew into LA last Saturday, spoke and flew out. What he had to say is relevant to those never treated. What he brings to the “game” is HIFU...
Thanks for the feedback, all. I am a beneficiary of accurate C11 scanning and have an 80% chance of five years at zero because of it. Pretty good for tertiary treatment. Kwon was lamenting the...
Dr. Kwon’s major points. Dr. Kwon came into the conference Saturday and owned it. Early on, with apologies to Vince Lombardi he said: “imaging is not everything, it’s the only thing”. Bravado for...
Sorry, she will wear black on black, but with a pink fit-bit....
I am here also. Kwon and Myers had good presentations to detail later. Live music to close too. Will be at cocktails and dinner. You will probably notice me by my wife, tall blonde wearing red top....
Same here. G6 brachy treated morphed to G8 in 5 years. Salvage treatment, no distant mets. Then 5 years after that a lymph node met, treated with SBRT, 18 months ago....
Dr "Bob" has been promoting the idea that testosterone shock is good. http://compassionateoncology.org/pdfs/PAACT-Dec2013.pdf ==================================== Age 65 in 2016 12/02 PSA 2.9 age 51...
I had two HDR treatments, two weeks apart in 2009. The grid is put in in an operating room setting, then I was wheeled in a gurney to another building through a parking lot to where the radiation...
Hyperthermia is rarely used in the US, I'm finding out. I had it done via the perineum in 2009 as part of HDR brachy. The sensation is like mild continuous electric shock for 35 minutes. Not pleasant...
In September I will turn 65. I have treated this disease three times so far, but now anticipate the possibility of going on Zytiga or Xtandi or other expensive drugs. What is the best drug insurance...
I just watched the Snuffy Myers take on this and came here. He was as positive about this therapy as I have ever seen him. Lynparza was initially tested by the same group that tested Zytiga and...
It follows that dead cancer cells don't have checkpoint inhibitors? This would enable immune cells to identify them. There was a commercial on the Superbowl describing the concept (regarding other...
We are looking at maybe staying at the Jolly Roger Hotel on Washington Blvd. Dumb name, but it looks like a decent place at half the price of the Ritz. I've stayed at the Jolly Roger and it's a...
Another call from Marina Del Rey here: undetectable, using Labcorp test, i.e. <0.015 ==================================================== Age 64 in 2015 12/02 PSA 2.9 age 51 9/03 BX/DX, Gleason 6, 4...
http://eatingacademy.com/nutrition/way-exploit-metabolic-quirk-cancer Not to let this thread die, I would suggest to its readers the above article. It's 1,000 words and gets to the heart of the...
Hazard ratio .85 fro highest saturated fat intake vs the lowest? What? http://eatingacademy.com/nutrition/the-straight-dope-on-cholesterol-part-i Yes, eating a low fat diet was mistaken advice,...
The mantra is that there are no dietary studies in humans that prove a benefit in PCa treatment. This will probably always be the case, because in order to study diet accurately, you have to...
Once we have been de-bulked of cancer via radiation-surgery-hormones-chemo, these approaches may help: 1. Diet (Mediterranean, Ketogenic) 2. Supplements (turmeric, green tea, broccoli, pro-biotics)...
With Gleason 9, he probably should have had other therapy, i.e. hormone, Casodex during or after. That should have knocked his PSA down for a while. When the PSA comes back, consider the acetate...
I'm on one Pomi-T per day as sort of a compromise. I need to test again in a week or so. I'm reading the Tripping over the Truth / Cancer as a Metabolic Disease books. These support Cashlessclay's...
Seriously, take a look at the metabolic theory for feeding cancer. That is, cancer needs glycogen to grow and cannot grow using fat (i.e. ketogenic) fuel. Set aside several hours to investigate. The...
I am in a unique position of accidentally ordering from Quest, their standard and their ultra-sensitive PSA test on the same blood draw. The former: 0.1, the latter <0.1. Perhaps they are trying to...
My head is shaking on reading this. We are supposed to accept that persons like Adjust are no better off if they were diagnosed when their PSA was in single digits, and there were none / fewer mets?...
Many scientific videos at this link.. http://nutritionfacts.org/?s=prostate From the thread on milk vs. cancer, there are many good videos to check out at the link. They explore fish oil, eggs,...
Thanks for the update. Since some of us titrate our diet, medicines, supplements and exercise per PSA readings, they have to be reliably accurate. Lesson learned....
Interesting stuff. Diabetic diet is also a PCa diet. For a while I was on no red meat I had rectal bleeding, so there is some minimum level of iron needed. PCa is supposedly feed by fat early on,...
Cashlessday, I saw your other posts. Thanks. When you reduced simple sugars to increase PSADT, what did you remove from your diet? What is the biggest diet threat to PSADT in your opinion?...
Wow, what a thread. How else could I miss a 60+ post in 24 hours in a single thread? Quest has to up their game. They have lost all credibility in the PSA space....
Deanna, many condolences to you. Thank you for providing this group with closure, despite the difficulties in your heart....
What I do is use peanut butter on toast for fat-protein. Or use a soy based chocolate powder with 32 grams of protein, mixed with soy milk. Often times use muselix cereal and Kellogg bran for fiber,...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3132069/table/tbl3/ Because of this study, I stopped eating eggs 18 months ago and don't miss them; though social breakfasts can be awkward. Note the "P" factor...
I had Quest, inadvertently do both uPSA and PSA simultaneously. uPSA ................... Lab Results PSA (FREE AND TOTAL) Description Result Flags % FREE PSA UNABLE TO CALCULATE...
This hits close to home as I am seven months post oglio-met SBRT. I took a look at the study in the first post and reviewed a Snuffy Myers discussion from last December. The study said that the...
Thanks for all the insight. This board is a valuable resource. Adding the Quest test to the signature, it will be LabCorp from now on. ---------------------------------------------------------------...
I wish I had seen this thread earlier. I accidentally went to Quest because of my GP. Ask for their ultrasensitive PSA which came back <0.1. I was expecting at least two decimal places, i.e. <0.03 or...
Here's my experience. My wife has lower than average lung volume capacity. When we lived in Colorado, the salt rooms were good therapy for her. They relieved the effects of dryness and low lung...
All I can add, from the PCRI conference last weekend, was the recognition that chemo is delayed sometimes because of the stigma, and it should not be. Sooner the better in some patients, damn the...
Dr. Faddoul did my first procedure there, a low dose brachy in 2003, which ultimately failed. But this may be related to the nature of my cancer, rather than technique. I'm assuming your case is...
The other replies are correct. First make sure your prostate is clear of disease by biopsy, scans, ultrasound etc. before getting a C11 scan....
Your level of risk and mine seem similar, high, but not highest. PSA is ringing the bell. I would let it climb to >1, and get a C11 scan (will cost around $3K out of pocket) and find out exactly...
Redirected thoughts: 1. Dr. Moyad proposed that immune health = vaccinated health, and that we should be vaccinated for tetanus, shingles, flu and two other diseases that escape me. 2. The immune...
I attended the Prostate Cancer Research Institute conference in Los Angeles this past weekend. It is hosted by Drs. Scholz-Lam-Turner, Marina Del Rey, CA one of the best prostate oncology practices...
Dr. Beer presented at last weekend's PCRI conference a study of new applications of Zytiga and Xtandi. Promising stuff, but the cost of the drugs is prohibitive unless you are mCRPC. The challenge is...
I had hyperthermic HDR brachy in 2009 in Denver. It consisted of a grid of 10-20 tiny tubes, inserted into the perineum under general anesthesia. Then they insert microwave generator in some of the...