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Unexpected rise in PSA
Hello, I am new to this so please bear with me. I am 62 and was dignosed in 4 months ago with Gleason 3+3 type 1 based on two positive cores, 1 at 2%, the other at 5%. After a detailed meeting with the urologist, we are working on active surveillance. I went for my first post diagnosis PSA test a week ago and was very…
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Viadur Implants
Anyone tried Viadur Implants?
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Exercise
Exercise is always mentioned as an important adjunct to any Pca treatment program, but lets look at why. Any cancer will shrink you, and make you weak. With advanced Pca, all testosterone is eliminated from the system thru the use of drugs or castration, and this has insidious effect. How important is T? A woman who takes…
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Is PSA falling too slowly?
Hi all, My husband was diagnosed with an aggressive (Gleason 8 4+4) form of PCa stage IV with extensive bone mets in February. His PSA was 32. He went on Casodex in early March and Firmagon in April. His last blood test showed a PSA of 0.33. I would like to see it lower than this. Can anyone with similar circumstances…
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Official Start date of my radiation treatments
Finally got the call from the radiaiton oncologist today and my Official start of IMRT Radiation will begin on Sept 3. 38 treatments planned. This is to hopefully knock out my local recurrance following DaVinci Surgery 4 years ago. Lewvino
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Understanding PSA test numerical results/ decimal places
Hi, I hope this information can make it easier to understand the differences in the values when PSA results are reported with one, two or three decimal places. Perhaps it is easier to look at the numbers as if you were buying gasoline. If we were paying $3.35 for a gallon of gasoline and they added another digit to the…
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HIFU, High Intensity Focused Ultrasound
Has anyone here had HIFU rather than the Davinci Robot or radiation? My urologist strongly suggests the Davinci. He strongly advises against radiation because of my general overall good health. Most think I am ten years younger. Most who are twenty years younger and larger than me falter when lifting what I lift with ease…
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Rising PSA, Casodex and MRK2206
I am looking for any advice concerning Casodex and MK2206 trial. I had RP in 2004 at Ford Hospital using the robotic DaVinci. My PSA had went from 0.9 to 5.6 from March, 98 to June, 04. In May, 03 it was 3.6 but I guess my Urologist was using the <4 rule so nothing was recommended. After biopsy with Gleason of 7, I elected…
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Four year update
For those of you that have recently started down the prostate cancer journey, here is my update. I was diagnosed in September, 2009. My PSA was a little over 4, which by itself is not alarming. But I didn't have regular check-ups so my doctor didn't have a baseline to compare it to. He was concerned because the digital…
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Biopsy side effects
Back on May 20th I had a biopsy of my prostate, late last year my prostate was shaved and the tissue was sent to pathology and came back negative. I have suffered a lot over the years with BPH and the shaving really improved things. My PSA showed a minor rise in May and, because of my family history, the urologist at Penn…
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Fox news article on surgery satisfaction
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/07/01/life-after-prostate-surgery-worse-than-men-expect/
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bone density test (QCT,quantitative computer tomography versus dexa test)
Any opinions of which test is preferable to establish a base line reference? Below is information from the internet that I came across about bone density tests( Is there other information available?) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_computed_tomography Quantitative computed tomography From Wikipedia, the free…