I'm also using oil, but no idea how it is helping, but I'm trying everything.  I start radiation soon.  I'm also on hormone therapy, plus will start Zytiga in a week or so.  My goal is to cure it and I pray that happens for both of us.

Salvage radiation is the standard of care as your next step. The concurrent use of ADT for salvage cases is controversial but the most recent studies suggest that it helps as it does when used with primary radiation. I chose the 6 months of ADT (neo adjuvant) based on the latest data and I eat and live organic - don't even take aspirin, so it was a big decision. Its our last chance at cure and 85% of us will lose all of our ADT side effects so it's not a sure bet but I decided that it is a good one. Besides if SRT does not work, we will be right back here anyhow so I decided that it was worth the 6 months because I am shooting for cure. 

carrillor0529

I intended to flag your thread for the title you used and the sales link provided but abstained for the sincere question on the radiation plus HT treatment. No doubts that the title will be the matter of discussions in here, and you may not fully benefit from answers on your real issue. It will be interesting to know about the PSA result this time.

Having RT solo is also standard in a salvage therapy. Without the added HT (unmasked PSA) one can verify the RT outcome earlier. In any case, the success of a treatment for recurrence after RP depends on the choice of the field of attack of the radiation. Without appropriate targets the treatment is base on guessing locations and one can only expect to be lucky in hitting the bandit. You do understand that it is not easy to hit the bull’s eyes throwing arrows in the dark.

VG

Carrillo0520, I also had biochemical reoccurrence and the treatment protocol  at MD Anderson was to have SRT and 6 months of ADT providing that they could NOT confirm spread beyond the pelvic region. if there was spread to other parts of the body I most likely would not have received radiation but would most likely have been given hormone shots and / or Chemo depending on the significance of the spread. If spread cannot be confirmed and therefore the Pca may be confined to the pelvic region SRT is the treatment protocol along with ADT . While it is true that without ADT you do get an earlier read on SRT outcome , I agreed to the hormone shots ( which can delay outcome ) because I was told that the hormones could shrink the tumors making it easier for the radiation to be effective.

hewhositsoncushions said:

HI

HI

As per am earlier post of mine - if cannabis, fruitarianism, homeopathy or any other equally useless "alternative" medicine worked, big pharma would be all over it and locking everyone else out.

"Alternative" medicine that works is medicine. "Alternative" medicine is not medicine - it is refusal to be treated by medicine. Just ask Steve Jobs.

I'ver made a hobby of reading all the claims of such things from a behavioural modification perspective and they all bar none use fear and other strong emotions to put forward highly loaded but utterly unprovable claims (lies) in a way that will get desparate people to part with money. It makes me mad.

That being said, there is nothing wrong with doing stuff ON TOP of your existing regimens as long as it does not affect them or harm you - the placebo affect is real (but does not invalidate my points above).

C

Hewho,

Yours is a precise and correct summation of all things "alternative."  I have no objection to oil being used for pallative effect, just don't pretend that it is doing more than that.  And nothing even supports the notion that these oils are more soothing or effective in symptom mitigation than mainstream drugs.

The writer mentions his clinical progress, and speculates what role the oil has had. The most honest evidence-based answer is "none."

These salsemen fish our waters periodically. I am not suggesting he is an acutal "employee" of these agencies, but clearly there is an agenda.  Most of the oil sites I have gone to were utterly ridiculous, run by people with no medical training at all, making the most ridiculous, and wholly unverified, claims imaginable.

max

When we smoked weed in college some 40 years ago, it interfered with our immune system, not enhanced it. If the flu was going around, you either abstained for a bit or suffered the consequences. If you were still smoking weed or hashish, you were more likely to get sick, and the symptoms were WAY worse, and the duration of the illness lasted longer. 

Even though cannabis oil is sold as THC free, what ingredient in hemp could contribute to killing runaway cells or reprogramming cancer cells with cell death?

Or most importantly, how does it enhance the immune system? I doubt very much that it does. I am guessing a double blind study with cannabis oil and lard probably would show no significant correlation between hemp and the immune system, as opposed to any other oil or fat.

I don't know who came up with the idea that cannabis oil cures cancer, but I am betting they were high when they said it. 

Or greedy.

hewhositsoncushions said:

HI

HI

As per am earlier post of mine - if cannabis, fruitarianism, homeopathy or any other equally useless "alternative" medicine worked, big pharma would be all over it and locking everyone else out.

"Alternative" medicine that works is medicine. "Alternative" medicine is not medicine - it is refusal to be treated by medicine. Just ask Steve Jobs.

I'ver made a hobby of reading all the claims of such things from a behavioural modification perspective and they all bar none use fear and other strong emotions to put forward highly loaded but utterly unprovable claims (lies) in a way that will get desparate people to part with money. It makes me mad.

That being said, there is nothing wrong with doing stuff ON TOP of your existing regimens as long as it does not affect them or harm you - the placebo affect is real (but does not invalidate my points above).

C

Search Cannabis & Israel,hundreds of studys going on now.

Giving children a chance to live siesure free, search Sanjay Gupta CNN reporter