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Prostate Cancer

Archives for October 2013

PROLIA /ELIGARD UPDATE
HAD appointment with urologist today----gave me another PROLIA SHOT. ANOTHER ONE IS SCHEDULED 6 months from now. HE performed a prostrate check via up the rear & said it felt very good. MY current PSA is 0.15---he told me I'm in remission & He may stop injections after DECEMBER which will mark 3 years on the drugs. HE WILL…
PROLIA UPDATE
HAD APPOINTMENT WITH UROLOGIST TODAY----GAVE ME ANOTHER SHOT OF PROLIA. MY Current PSA is 0.15 & My next ELIGARD SHOT IS IN DECEMBER. HE told me it looks like I'm in remission & Will stop drugs AFTER the next shot of ELIGARD---BUT WILL KEEP Monitoring PSA----if it goes up I WILL HAVE TO START ELIGARD SHOTS AGAIN. DOES THIS…
Mets to the bone
Hi All, I am posting this on behalf of my father who is in his late 70s. He was diagnosed 2 years ago with Prostate Cancer (early stages) and went through radiation therapy which was successful, he fully recovered and his Cancer was in remission until recently.(last year follow-up scan results of his prostate did not show…
Active Surveillance
I am 74 yrs old with PC 3+3 gleason scale 6 and 7% canc in one core. I am having the prolaris gene test done but do not have the results. My urologist wants me to do active surveillance probably because of my age, but I am healthy and on no medications. I want to live long enough to see my 4 young grand kids grow up.…
I'm confused more than ever
My husband and I met with the urologist yesterday for results of bone scan and we left feeling pretty good, but I still had some unresolved questions. Here's his status: Gleason score is 6. Both sides were positive. 10 cores taken, 5 from each side. All 5 cores taken from left were positive and 2 of the 5 on right were.…
hypermetabolic lymph nodes in chest
my husband has been watching his PSA slowly rise for the last fifteen years, when it reached 13 in 2011 he got one posetive bit from a biopsy gleason of 6. we were encouraged to watch and wait no big deal. In June 2013 PSA went to 14 so we had another biopsy four positive bites gleason of 7. We did bone scan and mri and we…
IMRT Salvage radiation is complete!
On Friday I completed my final 38th round of IMRT delivered salvage radiation to the prostate bed. The salvage radiation was started in early Sept. 4 years after my Davinci Surgery. A positive margin was noted back than and my psa increased over the past year from 0 to .3 A total of 68 gy were delivered. Over all the…
Gleason 10 and rapidly escalating PSA
Hi All, I am writing on behalf of my father. On tuesday (22 October) this week he was diagnosed with stage 4 prostrate cancer that has metastisised to the hip bone and spine. The biopsy has returned a gleason of 10. His PSA was 5 in the beginning of august and is currently sitting at 14 after the tests this week. He has…
Just completed biopsies
Thank you all for your contributions to this site. I have gleaned consdierable information from the first hand experiences I have read here. My story is just begining. Have a family history of prostate cancer with my father undegoing RP and subsequently radiation therapy for Gleason 4+4. I have had some obstructive…
UCSF Urology
I am hoping for a seccond opinion at UCSF. Does anyone out there have exprience with prostate surgery at UCSF? In particular with Dr. Shinohara?
Pathology Report
Well, it looks like surgery was the right choice for me. The Pathology Report shows that my initial Gleason 3+3 score remained the same, involving less than 5% of the total prostate volume; the stage was T2A. Although it was a small tumor, and my urologist thought I would be a good candidate for watchful waiting, the…
Lymph node positve
I am eight weeks post op a robotic prostectomy. My pahtology report was worse than expected and would like to hear from anyone that has similar disease characteristics and what they are considering for further treatment. My before surgery PSA was 58 no post op is undetectable... Gleason 7 (4+3) ... lumph node positive...…
Cialis or tadalafil
Can anyone recommend a good and safe place online to buy Cialis or tadalafil.
Prostate & lung cancer - New information only one primary - prostate?
I had left this board because although my husband was diagnosed with prostate cancer (gleason 9) in January of 2012, he was diagnosed with another primary cancer - lung cancer with spread to bones. He had 40 radiation treatments for the prostate, ending in May. 8 weeks of chemo for lung ending May 7th. Lung mets…
Surgery Wednesday
Hi all, Sorry, haven't been very active here past few months. But I've been visiting almost daily and reading. I'll be going for Da Vinci surgery on Wednesday. My surgeon will be the same doctor who removed my kidney three years ago and he has done thousands of these Da Vinci prostate surgeries. So I feel pretty confident…
2 year aniversary
Hello all. I have been monitoring the site but only as a spectator. On October 1 2011 I learned I had PC and on Noveber 11th 2011 had an RP. My Gleason went from a 3+4 to a 4+3. No posative margins or extraporstatic extension but was in both lobes. My psa post op was <01 and moved around to .04 when I had a lymphoceal then…
Extracapsular Extension at Posterior Left Apex
Hi Everyone I am new to this forum. I have been reading many of the threads, and I find it very informative. I recently has RP, and the post-op pathology report came back. Most of the bullet points were good, except for one: Extraprostatic extension is present at posterial left apex. The doctor explained that the cancer…

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