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Prostate Cancer

Archives for January 2015

PSA score 37.6
Haven't been to doctor in decades. 62 years old. Applied for life insurance policy and bloodwork showed PSA 37.6. Never even heard of PSA. Doc says prostate enlarged with hard spot when he did rectal. Going for biopsy on Feb 20th. Only symtom is getting up to pee 3 or 4 times per nite but it's been like that as long as I…
Yahoo Article
http://news.yahoo.com/prostate-cancer-treatment-surgery-radiation-181807915.html I thought this was a very informative and interesting discussion on Pca. A good article and some very good comments. Love, Swami Rakendra
Protasol Quercetin
Has anyone tried protasol quercetin? It is a herbal tablet that is suppose to lower testerone. My PSA is going up and my Doctor wants me to try it. He said some of his patients has had some sucess with it? daytona19
experimental PSA blood test to prevent unnecessary biopsies
Hello, I am new to this forum and had my first PSA test last year. It was normal but I have relatives who have died from prostate cancer. I am an engineer and biotechnology entrepreneur. My early stage start-up company is developing a prostate cancer blood test to discriminate between prostatitis, benign prostate…
AMS800
An earlier thread posted some of my history dealing with the aftermath of Prostate Cancer Surgery. After living ten years (age 71 - 81) with <.01 PSA I decided to explore an artificial system to eliminate or slow gravitational drippage using 2.3 Depends Pads per day. The head of Urology at U.C.Med-Davis, in Sacramento…
PSA TEST RESULTS
MY LATEST PSA TEST RESULTS WENT UP FROM 0.062 TO 1.41-------CAN ANYONE TELL ME WHY?
SBRT, 7 year study, quality of life and toxicity
OBJECTIVES: Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) yields excellent disease control for low- and intermediate-risk prostate cancer by delivering high doses of radiation in a small number of fractions. Our report presents a 7-year update on treatment toxicity and quality of life (QOL) from 515 patients treated with…
(SBRT) for prostate cancer in men with large prostates, >50 cm3
Background: Patients with large prostate volumes have been shown to have higher rates of genitourinary and gastrointestinal toxicities after conventional radiation therapy for prostate cancer. The efficacy and toxicity of stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT), which delivers fewer high-dose fractions of radiation…
management of low- and intermediate-risk prostate cancer
National trends in the management of low- and intermediate-risk prostate cancer in the United States, "Beyond the Abstract," by Adam B. Weiner BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - Using United States population-based data, our team recently published a study in the Journal of Urology charting temporal trends in the diagnosis and…
Question About Multiple Cryoablation Treatments for PC
Would like to ask whether anyone has taken multiple Cryoablation treatments for PC and if so how was your outcome. I am seven years since diagnosis (age 54) with PSA 30, G9, t3b Susequent radiation treatments 73Gy (41 fractions) IMET completed August, 2008 followed up with 3 years of Luprone treatments (completed April,…
Active Surveillance
I was diagnosed in July, 2014. Gleason 3+3, only one core 5% positive, PSA of 3.9 (accelerated from 0.7 two years ago which led to the biopsy). Have been doing research and thought surgery was my best option and have had three surgery dates set and cancelled for various reasons (fate?). After two more opinions and checking…
Humana ins
Husband having trouble with getting Xtandi thru Humana. They stated in refusal letter they said patient must meet following criteria: has progressive disease following treatmen t with abiraterone acetate (rising prostrate-specific antigen shouldn't be used as the sole criteria for progression. Husband is in chemical…
Lost the battle after 3 1/2 years
I want to first say to everyone that have help us on this board that you are wonderful people. My hausband John or IAJC lost is battle with prostate cancer on October 12,2014. I'm so sorry that I have not informed you all before now but since his death I've been completely overwhelmed by the many evils that can come out of…
Update and Is Cancer just Bad Luck?
http://a.msn.com/r/2/BBhqxBi?a=1&m=en-us Biological bad luck blamed in two-thirds of cancer cases Plain old bad luck plays a major role in determining who gets cancer and who does not, according to researchers who found that two-thirds of cancer incidence of various types can be blamed on random mutations and not heredity…
Cyberknife
Good afternoon and Happy New Year, This is my first time visiting the CSN website. November 2014, dx with prostate cancer following a second biopsy. 3 of 20 site were positive. gleason 6, psa around 8, gps 22. My urologist feels the cancer is contained to the prostate. I'm a very healthy 56 y/o. I'm considering Cyberknife.…

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