Thanks guys....
A fellow member, Steelguy, has had quite a ride for the past decade and recently found pluvicto to be very effective. Check his posts and reach out to him. I saw him last September before treatment...
Thanks, Jim....
Thanks, yes, doing well. My doc kept me on quarterly for an extended time due to my high risk diagnosis. His practice keeps a very close watch on their cancer patients. They are very metric driven...
Received a call from my urologist this afternoon. He declared this was the 50th PSA he has taken since I became his patient. The great news is another undetectable! Plus, he put me on a one year...
While I don’t usually eat ice cream, I do live for summer and the Chic Filet Peach Milk Shake. I plan to have three per week and will certainly gain a few pounds between now and Labor Day. Oh well....
Skeeter, I did some more reading about NEPC. One of its hallmarks is the lack of meaningful PSA expression. Thus the NEPC was busy working and spreading without the usual PSA warnings normally...
Neuroendocrine PCa is difficult to treat as it is often not sensitive to ADT, radiation or chemotherapy used for PCa. Surgery is usually the preferred treatment method when the initial diagnosis is...
NorCal, I agree with Mumbo. Watch, wait and research docs that truly specialize in recurrent PCa. Keep testing at least quarterly with the same service and start plotting all the tests to attempt to...
Excellent. Bon voyage, baby!...
I applaud your actions Jay. What little you described about your urologist is enough for me to sever that relationship. How smug to tell you …nothing to worry about….and no reason to use modern...
In my opinion Orgovyx appears to be an excellent drug to consider for intermittent ADT as one’s testosterone recovers much faster than with the injectables (Lupron, Firmagon, Eligard, etc.) as the...
Regarding the PSA, I suggest a further breakdown to estimate the tumor load and take some steps to isolate the cancer amount and any progression as measured by PSA. Of benign prostate tissue and of...
Welcome back Jay. Yes, find an excellent medical oncologist. I have heard good things about Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philly. What to do? The easy answer is to pursue a drug based routine to manage...
Just read a report with him explaining his situation and imploring men to check their PSA. At age 54 his PSA was elevated and his doctor initiated testing protocol and resulted in surgery. Some...
Mumbo, similar here, but mirror image. Main reason I chose robotic was to check other side within the one procedure. Neither open nor laparoscopic surgery can do so. Left side was repaired and right...
Several years ago I read a report from a medical oncologist summarizing the effect of untreated PCa. It said that other than a true G6, that left untreated once a tumor is present in the prostate the...
Great comment Sailor. Prostate and colon cancer are two of the easiest cancers to find early when best treatable using well proven, common and inexpensive methods of early surveillance. For PCa...
I have also seen several reports of colon cancer. The first report from the NBA was prostate cancer. I haven’t seen anything definitive from any family members or people close to him like a...
This is confusing as another source is saying colon cancer. So who knows?...
Just saw a report as to the type of cancer that ended Walton’s life....
Similar situation for me. When I was diagnosed with PCa the CT scan showed a “fat filled inguinal hernia” on my left side. We decided not to treat as it wasn’t bothering me. Several years later it...
Please consider High Dose Rate Brachytherapy. Now it is common to be done in one procedure. Since the radiation does not pass through the body there is much less toxicity and fewer side effects....
May he rest in peace. A reminder that for too many men this cancer is deadly and should not be dismissed. He had the means, the intelligence and ability to have the very best treatment and he came up...
I have two naturally blonde cousins of a similar age that enjoy working jig saw puzzles. Not long ago one posted an announcement proclaiming their achievement pride regarding solving a puzzle. Her...
Agent, I assume your GP was thoroughly knowledgeable about your PCa history including the surgery and radiation before declaring your PSA increase was normal. Was she your GP at the time you were...
Mumbo…no problem and we both had the same advice. Well played....
Well, to this non-physician, after the treatment you had an increase in PSA would signify a little bit of PCa somewhere. You have met the medical definition of a cancer recurrence and shouldn’t...
Thanks for the update. Glad to see you are doing so well with HDR-BT....
Why? It hasn’t proven to be as effective as the numerous well proven radiation therapies. It has some significant treatment negative side effects. It isn’t covered by Medicare or most major insurance...
Great report, Ken. Keep it up....
Dr. Sartor moved from Tulane to Mayo some 18 months ago. Very experienced and leading edge medical oncologist for more than 30 years. The combination of Drs. Kwon and Sartor puts Mayo at the top for...
Not dry, but greatly diminished. No change in 13 years…….guess that would signal permanence....
Several years ago a new member came onto the forum, his name escapes me. He was relatively young and diagnosed after his femur broke while he was descending stairs at his home. His PSA was over 5,000...
May The Lord hold him close by his side. Apart from his participation on the forum I enjoyed many contacts with him. He suffered far too much for no good reason and was never properly compensated....
I have a couple of his books and know people that have tried. Very few could actually follow it and no one could stay on it. I certainly can’t. All said they were better informed and made some...
Congrats....
I’m sure when he was in jail they were not affording him PSA screening. In that period of time things can get out of hand bigly. He had two things going against him…..age and race…….both greatly...
Hal, once you qualify for retirement benefits you have 12 months to rescind your election and then re-apply at a later date. You can only do this once. If you have received any benefit in the 12month...
Our condolences to Mandy and you. Do I correctly remember Brody as our good companion when Lee and I visited?...
Hal, if you know your benefit will be reduced, you should consider retracting your application and then refile at a later date after the possibility of a reduction. Your projected normal benefit...
To this day my wife has theorized that his son was the assailant. She says OJ arranged to protect his son knowing that he (OJ) would be the natural one to be charged, but he would be acquitted since...
The income/benefit offset works in two ways. In every calendar year prior to attaining Full Retirement Age it is a reduction of one dollar of benefit for every two dollars of earnings over the offset...
Hal, your employee earnings this year will count against you as you haven’t yet reached Full Retirement Age. Basically, your benefit is reduced one dollar for every two dollars of earnings above the...
Just saw a report of his death from cancer. In February he reported he was being treated for prostate cancer. Didn’t see any real disease or treatment details....
Excellent results. Great use of a wonderful treatment method. Do you have any significant negative treatment side effects?...
Most likely an infection. Exercise like bike riding and having sex can increase PSA for a short time, but not usually that much. Sounds like your doc is watching it. That your history shows some...
You should be under the care of a great urologist. What does he/she say about the increase and what to do next?...
Thanks for the catch, Ed. One would have been bad enough, but three? Sheesh....
JP, I had combined IMRT and brachy a little more than 13 years ago along with ADT. As for the radiation side effects, they started about 10 days into the daily radiation and persisted until about two...