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Prostate Cancer
Archives for January 2012
Discussion List
PSA increase @ +7 & +12 after surgery
(12) weeks ago (10/17/11), I had my prostate removed after 6+ years of PSA increases and numerous biopsy. The last PSA was 13 with the bio results in 3+4 =T1. I chose robotic surgery. 1st post surgery PSA @ +7weeks = 0.38 2nd post surgery PSA @ +12 weeks = 0.43 Based upon PSA increases, and pre surgery CT, MRI & bone…
44 and recently diagnosed - help!!!
I recently turned 44 and was diagnosed on September 3rd, 2011. PSA at the time was 3.0 and now 6.6. 1 core sample, 2%. Gleason 6. I have spoken to probably 10 different docs including Urologists and Radiology oncologists. RP seems to be the most common recommendation but I rather do radiation as I feel once my prosate is…
prostate cancer to bone, psa keep going high, chemo treatment not working, seek for help
prostate cancer to bone, haivng chemo treatment ( cabazitaxel ) twice, psa still keep going up from 1300 to 1700 in 2 months, anybody here has any idea about it and seek for your help, would like to know the best place or doctor to treat prostate cancer, thank you for your help. psa goes up so fast even though having chemo…
New diagnosis
Greetings everyone. I just stumbled upon this website and am looking forward to getting any info that will help me out with my decision making. Got diagnosed with PCa in early December. Quite a shock for me as I am relatively young (48). Have two tumours One a gleason scale of 1 and the other a 9. I have been reading on…
Choosing the best Radiation Treatment
Who has the best results and the least side effects? IMRT, IGRT, Calypso, Cybernife, Tomo, Proton? Low grade Prostate cancer. History of Prostatitis
Pain during RT
Hi, I am 14 days into Radio Therapy to the Prostate prior to brachy therapy and am having severe pain between the legs when I sit down, I thought this may be the prostate enlarging due to the radiation, the RT Radiologist says it can be. My fear being that if the prostate grows too much I will not be able to have the…