Dear T.S. Eliot, After 3 months of deliberation, I finally decided on SBRT. I have chosen a practitioner, and am working to accomplish the preliminaries and schedule the treatment. Might you feel up...
I have decided on SBRT. I've chosen a practitioner who specializes in that and whom I feel very confident in. I am working on setting dates for the procedure and accomplishing the preliminaries. I am...
Dear Allen, I am looking for a top HDR brachy RO. Someone suggested looking for a protege of Dr. Alvaro Martinez indicating that he was a top 3 researcher/practitioner for HDR and that there were a...
Dear Legacy, I have a 4 + 3 and am exploring SBRT and Brachy HDR and will decide very soon between them. I also looked into Focal therapy a bit and was planning to do that before I got my 4+3 and new...
Dear Tall Allen, I am exploring SBRT further and have made contact with Freeman's office in Tampa. Thanks for that suggestion. In terms of long-term rates (percentages) of biochemical recurrence-free...
Dear T.S. Eliot I'm hoping the SBRT is going well or has completed and that you are having a strong heart for whatever is unfolding. Because your details are similar to mine, 4 +3 in the lesion and...
/pcnrv.blogspot.com/2017/12/is-adt-still-needed-for-high-risk.html I'm in the unfavorable intermediate category of D'Amico and looking at dose escalated ldrbt of McLaughlin where the blogspot...
Dear JNF, thanks for the link to learn more about brachy and HDR and Dr. Demanes. Also thanks for the encouragement not to be overly fearful about ADT. Let me say more about ADT. Sure there is some...
I had a severe Peyronie's disease (Penile Plaque Disorder) about 10 years ago and used VED daily for years for pumping up the penis. It was different from an erection but it seemed to bring an...
Saw RO at Duke. I asked, "Is there a way to responsibly avoid ADT?" he replied, "for unfavorable intermediate like you, No." I started to whip out the chart from your piece:...
From Nomogram? PROBABILITY OF CANCER-SPECIFIC SURVIVAL AFTER RADICAL PROSTATECTOMY 10 YR99% 15 YR99% Does that mean cancer-specific survival including a possible follow-up SRT or just after the RP?...
Dear John, I'm considering brachy soon so interested in this thread. I already have lots of experience with sleep challenge and urination frequency and frequency urge. . . .perhaps though in a way...
I have an appointment in the next week with Dr. Lee. Thank you so much. I'll let you know if indeed they offer all the ones you mention. A urosurgeon and a RO for PCa have told me that I have a...
I have friends who have made major investment of energy in very strong quality of aging using data from the major aging research centers in the US. Along with that approach they do not take PSA or...
Dear TS, I am glad to read your note and the various responses as it feels similar to my dilemma starting about 6 weeks ago. I still go back and forth on surgery vs. RT. Within either one I go back...
Thanks for the response and the information on the blog. I am trying to digest it. The local RO offered IMRT only for the periphery of the prostate for 25 days and then Brachy HDR permanent, then ADT...
First time on list and recently joined member. After two years of PCa favorable intermediate risk, I have moved into unfavorable intermediate risk category. My wife and I are looking for the...