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Rise is PSA After Rest From Hormone Therapy
This is my first post after having just recently found this site - another member to the "reluctant club". My wife and I found received the news about PC in February, 2008 when my PSA was measured at 29.7. I was 54 in 2008. The subsequent biopsy revealed 5 out of 10 biopsies were positive (left side of the prostate)with a…
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Stuart Florida doctor
Nicholas O. Iannotti, MD, FACP He was recommended to us, I wonder if anyone knows him and has information to share.
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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…
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Radiation with Hormone Therapy-Firmagon
Hello Kongo ,VGama & ALL wanting to follow my journey. I took the advice of Kongo & will post my journey on this site. A few details> Original PSA was 55 , Gleason score of 9. Both Bone scan & MRI were clear-no metastasis. Also had a cystoscopy & confirmed nothing spread to the bladder. Had 3 gold seeds inserted into the…
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prostate cancer metastasized to bone -- low PSA and no pain
My husband was initially diagnosed with PCa in 1999 with a PSA of 6.7 and a Gleason score of 5.He had seed implant in June 1999. A couple of years ago, PSA started to rise slowly. He was aggressive in monitoring his results and he had a bone scan, MRI, Xray and CT. The last PSA is still low (1.92 up from 1.68 6 monts…
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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…
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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
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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…
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Hooray! -- My PSA Is Finally Dropping!
After some troubling ups and downs this past year following CK treatment, my PSA is finally dropping and is currently below what it was over 5 years ago before all of this sh*t started. Maybe it helped that I didn't have sex for a week before the last test. LOL!!! It's still not as low as I'd like but at least it's headed…
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Good idea to be in a clinical study?
I post on the ovarian cancer site, but a friend of mine (in his mid 70s) thinks I know a lot about ALL cancer, and of course I don't. He had his prostate removed 14 years ago. 7 years ago his PSA started rising, but somehow this was never flagged. (We live in Scotland, and the NHS isn't always on top of these things.) This…
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fatique after radiation
I am continuing to have fatique 14 months after finishing 45 radiation treatments for prostate cancer. My radiation doctor had not helped at all..says I may have to live with it from now on. Any suggestions?
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Side effects from xgeva and firmagon
Hello all, I was wondering if anyone has taken xgeva in combination w/firmagon. My dad has advanced pca with extensive bone mets. He had 1 shot of lupron in march then was switched to firmagon to avoid the tumor flare from Lupron. He had his second shot of firmagon and second xgeva shot 13 days ago, he had severe nausea…
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Any experience with Intermittent HT?
My husband is seriously exploring the IHT for his recurrent PCa. I've found some good material on line but am interested in hearing from anyone who has experience with this protocol. Many thanks and a wonderful holiday to you. Renee
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Merry Christmas
Hello fellow survivors wishing you all a Merry Christmas. Keep the good fight going and thank you all for your support.
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prostate and MS
I have been diagnosed with Intermediate PC w/ score of 7. I have all of the options open to me to be healed. I have MS and this makes it complicated for the doctors because they do not have experience with MS patients. I want nerve sparring procedure. Either surgery od radiation. I have been married for 35 years. We have…
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bump, bump
My PSA rose to 4.2 this month, six months ago in June,11 it was 3.6.....before that it was steady at at 2.5 for at least the last 5 years. My free PSA was 14 this time and 18 in June. I've had 3 biopsies, the last two were negative(the last one in June, 11). In 3/09 when I was diagnosed it was 2/12 cores, less than 5…
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Is the AUS 800 for me? Please help me decide.
AUS 800 for me? Please help me make up my mind. I am a 20 year prostate cancer survivor. I am 85 years old. My Gleeson score is 7 (3+4). Over the years, I have undergone radical prostatectomy, radiation, and hormone therapy. Today my PSA is undetectable. I have experienced very little discomfort or pain because of the…
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PC Treatment Options - HIFU or Robotic Prostatectomy
I am 60 and was diagnosed with PC in mid November. At the time of the biopsy my PSA was 6.5 and had been above 6 since July. The urologist suggested taking another PSA in September and a final one in late October to see if PSA levels remained high. The July PSA is 6.7 and the September PSA is 7.4 and the October PSA is…
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Cyberknife After RP and SRT
Forum Friends! Just wanted to sign in with details of our decisions in the PC journey. My husband has started Casodex/Lupron TIP and after scans and more scans, we have decided to go forward with Cyberknife to target the one known tumor/lesion on the sacral vertebra. We are both pretty excited about this, hoping that it…
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Prostate Cancer Pony Express
I signed up to ride in the Pony Express this year. Going to be a part of a chain that will ride motorcycles through every state from Mar - Sept with the end of the ride carrying the names of prostate cancer victims and survivors for presentation to Congress in support of additional support for prostate cancer research and…
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Latest PSA results
this is my 6 month post IMRT psa result. 1.4 It has been checked every two months. starting at: 5.1 to 2.6 to 1.7 and now at 1.4. this time it slowed down a bit but i am hoping that it will still drop in future checks. going back in 3 months for another check. wishing every one in the Cancer Survivors Network a merry…
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New Proton Option Being Offered
My brother is 3 yrs behind me in age and he his finishing proton therapy in chicago area. His treatment center told him they and Loma Linda Hospital are now offering a trial proton treatment for low stage prostate cancer. You get the same dosage of radiation but its all delivered in 5 treatments instead of 45. Strictly…
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Post Brachytherapy Blues
Had the procedure on 12/9/11. Everything has been fine until the last couple of days. In the last couple of days I have had very sore testicles and flu like body aches and pain. Anyone experience this? Thanks, John
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1st PSA after RP
Had my first post RP PSA done Wednesday (5 weeks after surgery)and got results today. A VERY HAPPY .006 YEEEE HAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. Primary objective of ridding the beast out of my body appears to be successful on first pass. Very happy so far. No issues with incontinence and the sleeping giant appears to be awaking more often.…
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Thanks to all here...
Hello all, Had seed implants on 12-9-11 and all is well so far. Minimal issues. I'm looking forward to the first PSA test. Thanks to all that post here. I learned quite a bit from the posters on this site and your input helped me greatly making the final treatment decision. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year (cancer free…
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Cyberknife perineal placement: excruciatingly painful.
I had 4 fiducials placed today through the perineal. It only took about 3 minutes for the actual placement. On a scale of 1-10 it was a 10. To make this a positive , helpful post I would suggest you take whatever arm injected pain killer you are offered. I was accompanied by someone to drive me home and so I was eligible…
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availability of Zytiga
I am new to this disscusion board however, for those of you that beleive that Zytiga is only available for those who failed chemo treatments you are misinformed..acording to most insurance plans three criteria must be met that is 1. FDA approved 2. nonexperimetal 3. prescibed by attending physician...you may have to go…
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Newly Diagnosed
Hi All, I've been reading since last night and find all of your input very informative. Thanks. I was just diagnosed this past week, and My wife and I are just trying to digest things and begin talking about a path forward. As a result of my GP finding a bump, I had a needle biopsy with the following results: 7 of 14 cores…
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Is This Normal - PSA test not done until 3 months after radiation
It has been quite a while since I posted on this site but had a question regarding my husband's PSA tests. Just a little background: My husband (82 years old) is going through his radiation treatments (44) and is half way through with no side effects so far. I just found out today that they are not going to check his PSA…
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2 year checkup results
I went in to the doc for my 2 yr post davinci surgical checkup. Doc says things are fine.......... one thing concerned me, two previous (6 months and 12 month) PSA values were < 0.06 Mondays PSA reading was 0.1 ........... Doc indicates that they are one and the same, and that its "zero". I have used the same lab every…