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New to CSN - First Post-Op PSA Test
I had DaVinci surgery on March 14, 2011, at City of Hope here in SoCal and finally got my first post-op PSA results a couple of weeks ago. "Undetectable!" My pathology report indicated stage T3A with extracapsular extension and a "single" positive lymph node. No positive margins, no seminal vesicle or lymph-vascular…
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Growing Danger with Prostate Biopsies
I came across this article yesterday from Bloomberg News which I thought many here may find interesting. It highlights a growing trend of spesis and sepsis related death following prostate cancer as a result of bacteria that are increasingly resistant to antibiotics. The risks of a transrectal needle biopsy should be…
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Update on my "confusion"
This is thread number 2 which I started to make it easier for respondents. If you want to see the original thread from a few days ago, it is http://csn.cancer.org/node/217641 To recap my situation … I will be 73 in a couple of weeks and during a routine physical, my PSA was 5.2, which led to a visit to the urologist and a…
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PET Scan ??
Dad's CT scan lite up like a Christmas tree in November 2010. Cancer is advanced with bone mestastsis thru-out his body. Does this type of cancer go into organs?
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PSA UPDATE
Just got my psa results 15 months post davivci and subsequent adjuvant imrt. "Undetectable" !!! I am counting my lucky stars especially since my pathologic diagnosis of. T3A with positive margins and extracapsular extension.Lymph nodes and seminal vesicles were clear. Gleason was 3+4=7 both at the clinical and pathologic…
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Prostate Biopsy Experience
Before my biopsy and surgery I benefitted from reading comments from others on this message board, so I would like to share my own experiences with the prostate biopsy process. Everyone’s experience is different, but my hope is that some portion of this may prove useful to others. In my humble opinion, reasonable people…
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6 Months post IRMT & HT
Finished 38 IMRT treatments Sept. 2010 6 Months HT treatment ended 1-15-2011. Gleason 3+4=7 RP 2006 PSA went from .1 in Dec. 2009 to .4 June 2010. PSA 0.08 in Nov. 2010 after IMRT. PSA now 0.01 6 months out. Do not think i could ask for anything better. Feeling good. Going for a long walk.
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First PSA After IMRT
I finished IMRT on April 1. I had lab work that we scheduled before my recurrence and IMRT treatments. Lab work order contained a PSA among other tests. I have been told that the figure will be (even more) unreliable for a year or more as it will bounce around after radiation. That being said, the PSA came back at 0.04. If…
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Recently Diagnosed and am a bit confused
I will be 73 yrs old in a month and am in excellent health, take no drugs of any kind, get plenty of exorcise and eat a mostly vegetarian diet. I am devastated, as I thought I would be the last person in the world to get this cancer. I had a biopsy due to a 5.2 PSA as part of a routine physical. 1 core (right side) out of…
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Hard to believe, 1 year after Da Vinci and 1 yr 3 mos after bladder TURP.. cancer free
Hello all.. Just a quick update: So far so good. PSA all zeros since surgery and bladder clean after TURBT last February. Quit the cigs 18 months ago ( before I was diagnosed with cancer).. No leakage.. For those recently diagnosed ..hang in there as there is much that can be done.