Cancer Survivors Network

HORMONE THERAPY aka ADT (Androgen Deprivation Therapy) or TIP (Testosterone Inactivating Pharmaceuticals) Below is a link to an excellent article from PCRI Insights Newsletter (Nov. 2010) on ADT aka TIP written by Dr. Mark Scholz, a nationally known ...

Forum topic - mrspjd - 01/21/2011 - 12:18pm - 9 comments

... but saw this today and don't think Ill be signing up for HIFU soon. Friday, 10 December 2010 BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - In ... evidence concerning High-Intensity Focussed Ultrasound (HIFU) for the treatment of prostate cancer that has been published in the last ...

Forum topic - Robert1941 - 12/10/2010 - 10:35am - 13 comments

... is frozen and thawed several times (also side effects) and HIFU (high frequency ultrasound) treatment) but HIFU is not yet approved by the FDA for use in the USA so it is an ...

Forum topic - GMGM - 01/10/2011 - 10:20pm - 13 comments

... so whether you are doing AS, had surgery, radiation, HIFU, brachytherapy, or whatever, it is worth paying attention to if you ...

Forum topic - Kongo - 01/08/2011 - 11:15am - 3 comments

... include surgery, radiation therapy, proton therapy, HIFU, Cyrotherapy and so forth. By indicating that HT was not curative in the ...

Forum topic - nickles44 - 01/04/2011 - 10:51pm - 7 comments

... surgery and Cyberknife as well as other options such as HIFU and proton therapy. I suggest you arrange consults with specialists from ...

Forum topic - silverfox1 - 12/13/2010 - 4:10pm - 19 comments

For those of you who have taken HIFU treatment for prostate cancer, I am interested in knowing about any side ...

Forum topic - jmadison - 11/29/2010 - 1:07pm - 1 comment

... available from doing nothing, seed implants, radiation, hifu, cyperknire..etc. etc. I did not want to be where I am today and say boy I ...

Forum topic - Will_10_2010 - 11/09/2010 - 8:10pm - 24 comments

I had RP in June 2003. My post surgery pathology was: Gleason 7 (4+3), margins clear, cancer on both sides of prostate. All of my PSA readings since then have been less than .04. The last blood test with that result was in June 2005. My most recent PSA ...

Forum topic - Billybumps - 11/25/2005 - 5:50pm - 66 comments

... be exact. In the meantime, we have been researching the HIFU treatment. I was under the impression that HIFU could not be done after a RP. But according to the Ablatherm website, it ...

Forum topic - HillBillyNana - 11/04/2010 - 9:10pm - 3 comments