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Prostate Cancer

Archives for December 2012

Concerns After Cyber Knife Procedure
I had the CK procedure approximately one month ago; I have been able to have an erection with ED medications but had problems with having a climax during intercourse. Is this to be expected for a period of time and part of the recovery expectations? It may be too soon to expect to have a climax and ejaculation.
New, anyone care to guess what the doc might do
I’m 67 years old white male. For the past several years my prostate has been slightly enlarged. My PSA have been around 2.3. I have a physical every year. This December my PSA was 5.9 I have an appointment with the urology Jan 2nd. Anyone care to guess what he might do beside the old finger up the rear. Do you think he…
New, anyone care to guess what the doc might do
I’m 67 years old white male. For the past several years my prostate has been slightly enlarged. My PSA have been around 2.3. I have a physical every year. This December my PSA was 5.9 I have an appointment with the urology Jan 2nd. Anyone care to guess what he might do beside the old finger up the rear. Do you think he…
General Norman Schwarzkopf
The Telegraph General Norman Schwarzkopf is dead at the aged of 78. This was the news on the Telegraph (and on every media) two days ago. It is sad thought to think that nobody seems to really know what killed the “Stormin” (The Grizzly Bear of the desert as many called him). They write this; “Schwarzkopf himself largely…
Failed DaVinci RP What Next?
I am currently recovering from my DaVinci RP attempt. Had surgery on 12-20-12. I have updated some info here that was asked about and some that was left out. 2012-12-28 Stats. Age 57 PSA 2.6 2-11 annual physical PSA 6.23 2-1-12 annual physical 90 day followup to determine if biopsy warranted PSA 5.4 5-1-12 Biopsy 1 of 12…
Different Models of CyberKnife
Does anyone know if there are different models of CyberKnife and what they are? I am considering it and would like to know what model the facility I am going to be is using. I think this is a reasonable question. Any thoughts?? David
Prostate Cancer Humor
A researcher was researching impotence after various prostate cancer treatments. He spoke to several recent brachytherapy patients and asked how often they were having sex. He totaled up their responses and calculated the average as once a week. The patients expressed their satisfaction as 6 on once a scale of 1 to 10. The…
Merry Christmas
To all my brothers here and now I wish you all a Merry Christmas. Thank you all for advice and support over the last year and I wish nothing bet the best, a zero:). Enjoy your holiday with your families and God bless you all.
PCa and Diet
I posted this a couple of years ago but still great information to help fight this beast….Happy Holidays to all! Lots of good information out there one of my favorite places for updated information are the web sites for UCSF and Prostate Cancer Foundation (give often to these guys…they fund the cutting edge and have done…
Need input and also advice
Greetings all, I had surgery in Feb of 2011, Final stage was T2C, with PNI present, the first year psa level stayed at the 0.01 level, year 2 is moved to 0.02. This past year it moved to 0.03 in August. last Tuesday doctor visit and it is now at 0.05. The doctor moved me back to a 3 month rotation for PSA tests and it was…
Please Help Me!
My husband has stage IV prostate cancer with bone mets. He was diagnosed last year on New Years Day, He was on Bicaultimide and Lupron Injections when the spread affected his stomache lymphnodes causing his PSA to rise to 14. They said his cancer was being aggressive and they started him on Zytiga with Prednizone it has…
Diet, exercise, Vitamin D megas in addition to treatment
So in October I introduced a thread in advance of my first ultrasensitive PSA test after being off Lupron for 11 1/2 months. As I indicated in May of 2009 I was a Gleason 7 going into daVinci surgery, and a Gleason 8, Stage 3 coming out. Went ten months with ultrasensitive testing regularly. In the tenth month my reading…
erectile dysfunction after 1 yr.
I had robotic assisted prostatectomy on Dec 9 2011 . I just had my 1 yr follow up and no cancer . I have been working with Cialis daily for the last 6 months only getting partial erection. It is up to the 3 oclock position not firm enough for intercourse. I read that sometimes it takes 1 1/2 years to recover to a full…
still psa after radical prostatectomy
My first psa 6 weeks after davinci was .18 and 4 weeks later .21. My pathology was 4+3 and pT3a. I never had undetectable psa. Anyone with experience with persistance of prostate cancer and treatment? Pre-surgery psa was 23.4. I am 53 yrs old.
Time Off Work after Open Radical Retropubic Prostatectomy
Any have any ideas of what kind of timne off work I can expect after a Open Radical Retropubic Prostatectomy? I have short term disability that pays 60% of my salary. I am just wondering what some typical times men have been out of work after this procedure. Thanks and have a great holiday!! David
Another Update -- PSA Still Not Below 1
Took another quarterly PSA test on 12/13 and it came back 1.26. This breaks the upward PSA trend that began 9 months ago from 1.55 on 3/26 to 1.69 on 6/26 to 2.12 on 9/14 and also follows the negative MRI/MRSI scans on 10/2. Still don't know why my PSA won't drop below 1 BUT all things indicate that I no longer have any…
Planned CSN Outage
CSN will be down from 9 pm Eastern Time Thursday (tomorrow) until 9 am Eastern Time Friday getting a badly needed software upgrade. You will notice a few formatting changes and enhancements. Most importantly, site functionality should improve significantly. Regards, Greta aka Your CSN staff
34 months
Got the call yesterday, My PSA is still less than 0.1 and praying for it to stay there. It has been 34 months since dx of stage 4 cancer. Merry Christmas to everyone and may God bless you!
Great news
Went to VA Hospital on Monday for blood to check psa. July psa 0.3 August psa 0.4 September psa 0.6 October psa 0.7 November psa 0.9 December psa 0.5 The only thing that I change was my diet since last month??? Now my weight is down from 230 to 225, but waist size still the same and still on Zytiga.
Need more advise
I am age 70 in excellent health with a family history of life expectancy in the high 90's First biopsy was G6 but got a second opinion from John Hopkins that downgraded it to PIN. PSA started 5 years ago at .25 and worked it's way up to 2.5 two years ago and 6 months ago it was 3.5 and that triggered the first biopsy. Now…
Cryotherapy or Radiation???
Hello I am a 75 yr old African American male with newly diagnosed Prostate Cancer. I have no history of BPH and this is not known to run in the family. Therefore I have not monitored my PSA levels because they were within normal limits every year until this year when it was elevated and the urologist noticed a couple hard…
Hormone side effect weight question
My husband has never had a belly but now after 9 months of hormone treatment, his belly is so big and hard almost like a pregnant belly. Im worried is this normal? Urologist claims hormones don't put on weight oncologist claims they due. Afraid it's a sign of something else, he also has lung cancer?
newly diagnosed
Hello everyone, I am a 75 yr. old african american male who was recently diagnosed with prostate cancer. I am very active and healthy with only hyperlipidemia in my medical history. I was told that my cancer was localized to the prostate and a Gleason score of 7. I had 2 biopsy cores that was a 3+4 and 2 that were 3+4. I…
Need some advise, Second Biopsy
Need some advise, After my first biopsy, I had one core with a Gleason 6 then downgraded to a PIN after a second opinion. At that time my PSA was 3.7 > now 3 months later my PSA is 4.2. Doc wants to do the frontal mutable core biopsy. This will be the second one in 8 months. He said that the trend is not good and is…
Low PSA, High Gleason, Surgery, Radiation, persistent pelvic pain
First post here - a brief recap of my case; was treated for prostatitus for almost a year after going in with minor urinary issues and pelvic pain. Prostate enlarged, but PSA was normal and never went up (so uro continually said "well you don't have cancer"). Eventually after nothing worked on enlarged prostate, biopsy was…
ANYONE WITH side affects from ELIGARD?
IS THERE anyone that had side affects from taking ELIGARD? RAD HOPEFUL
Newbie
For newbis who is looking for information on Pca, I offer this video. The doctors at Sloan-Kettering present this information in an honest and unbiased way. The video is about 30 minutes long and I feel is well worth the time to view it. Especially for those newly diagnosed with "the beast"…
Who does the cutting
I am probably going to have a RPP in January. The hospital is a teaching hospital and I am concerned about who actually performs the operation. Does anyone know if there are standard operating procedures as to whether the attending physician, resident, or intern performs the operation - specifically the cutting and…
Gov Jerry Brown, CA
has joined our club...here is the article and information about the doctor treating at UCSF....I wonder what treatment he is receiving....Jerry, we wish you well. http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/12/health/jerry-brown-prostate-cancer/index.html http://urology.ucsf.edu/faculty/facSmall_bio.html
MD Anderson -VS-
Cancer Treatment Center Of America -VS- MDACC. I go to MDACC and feel that it one of the best for my type of Cancer. I had some friend tell my wife that Cancer Treatment Center of America was better. I don't beleive that, but how do I convince my wife of that? My wife is getting worry. The web page for cancer, rates MDACC…

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