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My Dad's passsing from prostate cancer 11 years today
At 6:20 PM on July 9th, 1999. A wonderful guy full of life and love and one heck of an outdoorsman and musician. A WW2 vet and IMO a posterboy for the greatest generation and incredible father...His cancer was discovered late and was a Gleason 9. Me on the otherhand diagnosed early and the results from my surgery seems to…
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Another tool to fight The Beast
I will be starting treatment with CyberKnife in a few weeks. During my reseatch on PCa, I was fortunate enough to find this video by Dr. Dean Ornish giving a speech at M.D. Andersen that I feel would benifit anyone that wants to beat this disease. Its quite lengthy (1 hr & 12 minutes) but I found it so worthwhile that I…
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Adjuvant RT and Lupron
I had DaVinci Surgery on Sept. 2 2009. PSA was undetectable 3 months and more after surgery. I started adjuvant radiotherapy on April 14 2010. Had a PSA test the following week and it came back as 0.2. That was a very unwelcome surprise. Urologist put me on 3 monthly Lupron and we continued the RT which finished on June 2.…
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Weight Of Prostate Cancer Patient Linked To Tumor Size
Humm...I was in excellent shape so it is interesting how so many "general" conclusions do not apply to me... ...Judge for yourself...whole article can be found here: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/190715.php The size of tumors in prostate cancer patients is directly linked to their weight, according to a new…
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new member of your group
Hi all - We have been lurking here waiting for our biopsy results and they are in: 2/12 positive both less than 5%, 3+4 T1c psa 6.7 and free psa 11%, age 50. Hubby is leaning toward brach seeds (?) myself I want the thing out and will research surgery. To add to the DX as of today we have now been transferred to Kaiser…
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no control
i just had my cath removed and that was great, but now no control. man that sucks. kegel i hope will help. any comments thanks griff
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Urethral irritation/penis pain 3 weeks out of robotic surgery..please advise
Was recovering well till a few days ago...the post catheter pain/bleeding had gone away. 2-3 days ago felt like a cut in the urethra on top half of penis. There is intermittent bleeding, burning sensation after urination, constant ache in top of penis and stabbing pain during the day. The doc said to wait it out to see if…
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To IMRT or not IMRT
My Brothers, While I have just joined this site and am grateful to have found it, I am no stranger to prostate cancer. I would sincerely appreciate any input regarding my situation, but first, my history. PSA of 4.1 led to RP six years ago at age 57; T1C; Gleason 3+3=6; seminal vesicles, vasa, apex, and base all free of…
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cath out
i wanted to ask anybody about when they take the cath out, when i had the camera up the old junk it felt like a 35mm camera going in and worse coming out. what i want to know is how bad is it coming out. the cath line is bigger than the camera line. it is just such a bad feeling i can,t explain it, like they are pulling…
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surgery on june 23rd and now 4 days from getting cath out
i should have posted sooner so hopefully what i have to say will help someone. i have not got on any boards on since my surgery i guess because i was depressed, i should not be, i have a great dr. and a wonderful family. anyway my surgery was 6 and a half hours, i had a ruotured appendex in feb, so it took longer due to…
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Brachytherapy After-Effects
10 days after Brachytherapy (25 May 10), I started to have a near complete blockage fourtunately eased after some 20 minutes. Increased HARNAL to twice daily, plus anti-inflamatory medication (Brufen, Celebrex). My side-effects eased but in week 5 I'm still feeling urgency (8-12x daily) and can releive only 50-100cc a…
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Please help...Husband recently diagnosed
Hi! My husband was diagnosed with prostate cancer 1 week ago today. His Dr. on Long Island sent us into NYC for an appt with the Director of Urology at Mt. Sinai Hospital. He gave us so much info our heads are spinning. Here are some of his stats: PSA= 7.5 Gleason score= 3+4 11 out of 13 core samples were positive The…
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Procedure Complete
I finished the last of my CyberKnife treatments today, met with the doctor, and went back to work (as I have done after each of my treatments). The only side effect I have noted was more frequent urination than normal in the last 24 hourse but I've been drinking a lot of water so that may be part of it. I had five…