He mentioned he had a focally positive margin at the bladder neck so that’s not a bad thing now right? It could be originating there in which case you could potentially curatively treat that and...
How are you tolerating the combo? Just curious is it four infusions like three weeks apart?...
My girlfriend who passed away from RCC was actually on that combo before it was even FDA approved for Kidney cancer. It's somewhat less effective in PCA by there have been outliers in most cancers...
I agree with jmadrid...those #s are on the high side unless you have an enlarged prostate. If the Primary doc is using a PSA of 4 as a cutoff for biopsy recommendation regardless of age then I think...
The benchmark value of 4 is just a reference point ...its also not really applicable for guys in their 40s unless you have an infection or BPH. 4.0 in a 45 year old is certainly more suspicious than...
No you aren't overreacting however he is also at the age where the prostate starts growing so depending on that rate that could also explain some of the increase as well....
I am reasonably athletic and had a small DVT @ 42...tested negative for all genetic clotting factors and had no (known) predisposing factors. But my primary just happened to run a PSA and it came...
Agree with Blackjack...the whites don't really have any. While any link between yolks and risk of recurrence is weak to say the least, the fact that there's so much choline in them led me to greatly...
It depends how you phrase the question and what exactly you're looking for. Its pretty clear looking at study after study that recurrence rates drop over time. The majority of the recurrences occur...
Jobs had a much more uncommon neuroendocrine tumor. His survival was typical of that type and also why he lasted much longer than typical pancreatic cancer patients. Unfortunately the Whipple...
Has he drank more alcohol or especially caffeine? Caffeine definitely makes me go more often since my surgery. I guess it's just a little more of an irritant....
You're probably going to need an implant or something like trimix. Natural ones aren't coming back after 7 years...most of what will come back will be in the first 1-2 years. Pills MAY help but if...
Mid 2's in the low 40s is NOT normal... I had a 2.1 @ 42 and then 2.7 @ 44...A prostate typically isn't growing that quickly as you approach 40 to cause increases of 0.2+ per year in the absense of...
Maybe see if the oncologist has names of social workers that deal with a lot of that? Those types of mental health workers deal with medical related stresses day in and day out....
I'd agree that those O2 sat level are really good. Morphine is really what they would be using in the US as well for shortness of breath. When my girlfriend got to hospice one of the first things...
While costs ARE high, many of these manufacturers have gone to great lengths to help make them much more affordable thru various patient assistance and copay programs...this goes for Keytruda,...
They are seeing this in some of the other solid tumor cancers with the immunotherapies as well where some of the most aggressive and poorly differentiated cells respond better. Unfortunately in many...
It's because it was at a different lab...both were reported as "less than (x)"... Meaning that whatever result you saw was the lowest reportable value from that lab. Have a drink and enjoy!...
I'm curious - this seems a little unusual for such a low volume of cancer @ pathology with a Gleason 6. Did anyone else take a second look at this and see if it was truly a GL6?...
I used the depends briefs at first and found they dissappeared quite well under clothing and were actually quite comfortable. I used those for maybe a month and then started using the pads which I...
There was big news today in the kidney cancer world as the the immunotherapy combo of Opvido + Yervoy was approved as a 1st line treatment. I know they've done a little bit of work with Yervoy in...
I had a value of 2.1 when I was 42...then it was 2.7 when I was 44...doc sent me to urologist and I had a positive biopsy and had surgery on Dec 1st last year. Mine was seemingly caught pretty early,...
While I don't know much about their applications in Pca, I can speak on both quite a bit as my girlfriend was on both for her renal cell carcinoma but unfortunately they didn't work for her but did...
I think Tall Allen was spot on when discussing smaller sample size in certain populations. In my case, as a 44 year old GS 3+4 with a low PSA...when I was messing around with the stage, T2a, b, or...
Yea that stuff drives me crazy...especially considering the number of us I see here in their early and mid 40's...my screening was certainly neither unnecessary or harmful. I'm grateful for my...
Unlike most I had a significant amount of pain with my catheter...and whenever I would walk or move around too much it would hurt more "inside" and the urine would start turning pink. In fact my...
Yep I did...while a lot of the data out there for dietary changes is conflicting at best, the data on egg consumption seems strong enough that it made me change my habits. Though most of the choline...
I actually hadn't seen this particular calculator from MSK before...and there's clearly something odd goin g on. There's either an issue with their model - or there's an issue with the data being...
It means...congrats! That value is exactly what it says - it's lower than the detectable level where that test was performed. Here's hoping it always stays "less than" for you....
That's interesting that they are using interleukin-2...high dose IL2 though a much different treatment is the only treatment to date that has put a small subset of kidney cancer patients into a no...
Had my blood drawn yesterday @ 7 weeks for my followup appointment on Monday but the results were already uploaded and I needed to know...came back as < 0.1 :) About time I had some good news...my...
Hi John - It's definitely a squirt. It's literally like a 1-2 second contraction and squirt. The worst two I had were on the way out of the doctors office - they actually hurt a bit. I'm hoping it's...
Well other than one great grandparent, I had no history either. I'm only 44 and had a PSA of 2.7 with a fPSA of 24%...and a density of 0.11 - all my numbers were just slightly off. I'm fortunate that...
Hi - first time poster though I've read literally thousands of posts here the last few weeks. I just got my catheter out this morning and got very good news on the pathology. The catheter was on/off...