Muse and rise in psa. Also pomegranate pills to control rising psa

I assume you have been in
I assume you have been in contact with your Doctor. As you are most likely aware it appears that you may need some follow treatments following your RP in 2005.

I'm using numerous items such as pomegranate and do not know if it has helped or not since my PSA has been undetectable since my Surgery.

Please seek some advice from your doctor as to a next step in your treatment plans.

Take Care and best wishes.
Larry

PSA Levels
Subu,

Your PSA levels will bounce around a bit after RT. The median time it takes to settle in to a nadir is 18 months. If your scores trend steadily upward you probably still have some PCa somewhere but at this point your scores seem within the normal range for post RT.

I have tried pomegranate juice to no effect although it tastes good and goes particularly well with Grey Goose vodka. If you're taking a statin like Crestor it can cause you some problems so check with your doctor if you're taking those.

I have had much better effect eliminating dairy for reducing PSA levels. My PSA went from 4.3 to 2.8 in six weeks just before RT treatment in July. There are several threads about the impact of dairy and red meat in you peruse some back pages.

K

hopeful and optimistic said:

There is study at UCLA about the effects of Pomogranate juice...
....by a Dr. Heber among men with a rising PSA....the study is ongoing...and so far the results are pretty positive,,,,, http://www.renalandurologynews.com/pomegranate-juice-may-help-prostate-cancer-patients/article/137622/ .

My non professional opinion is that there are a lot of juices with antioxidents that are probably as good as pomograte juice....that are heart healthy....(heart healthy is prostate healthy).

By the way, during the last several months I cut out milk products.....during the last several years, I have been eating a low fat heart healthy diet.......my PSA remains steady...it is currently 2.5...six months ago it was 2.6.....anyway that's my diet and numbers


Additional low fat diet and exercise support heart h and prostate healthy.

Also diet and exerrcise study
http://www.huliq.com/10017/reduce-prostate-cancer-risk-healthy-diet

Highlights from article below:

Some sun is good

Exercise very important

Omega 3 good...omega 6 bad

grounded flax seed good

green tea good

alcohol bad

dairy products bad

fatty foods bad


HULIQ
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Diet and Exercise Lower the Risk of Prostate Cancer in Men

Submitted by KC Kelly Ph.D. on 2010-06-21
3ShareMen now are offered a new tool to combat prostate cancer and lower its risk. It may be a good reminder to all fathers and men that exercise and healthy diet help to significantly reduce the risk of prostate cancer, a new study shows. This type of cancer strikes nearly 200,000 men in the United States, but there are ways to avoid developing the condition.

Experts have shared that eating healthy foods and exercising can help eliminate the risk of developing prostate cancer in men. And too much of a good thing, is not necessarily a good thing either. A study by Raimondi S and colleagues from European Institute of Oncology in Italy reported that men who consumed a great amount of dairy products were twice as likely to develop prostate cancer. It was found by F. A. Ukoli and colleagues from Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee that omega 3 fatty acids reduced the risk of prostate cancer while omega 6 fatty acids increased the risk of developing prostate cancer.

The Risk of Prostate Cancer

Page E Liu from University of Nottingham Medical School in the United Kingdom and López Fontana CM and colleagues at Universidad Juan Agustín Maza conducted similar studies that both showed that men who were obese and/or consumed high intakes of fatty foods were at a significantly great risk for prostate cancer. Exercise is extremely important as well for reducing the risk of developing prostate cancer. This was proven in a study by Dr. Stephen J. Freedland and colleagues of the Duke University Prostate Center and the VA Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina.

Pollard H.B. and colleagues from the Uniformed Services University School of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland reported in that certain doses of vitamin C reduced the tumor size and number of tumors in rats that received hormone-refractory prostate cancer PA III cells. The consumption of alcohol had an effect on the frequency of contracting prostate cancer. Lionel L. Bañez, MD, at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C. and colleagues presented a study at the Genitourinary Cancers Symposium which showed that men who had three alcoholic drinks regularly each week were almost 2 and a half times more likely to develop prostate cancer as men who did not drink alcohol at all.

We often worry about how damaging the sun can be; however, according to Gilbert R from the University of Bristol in Bristol, United Kingdom and colleagues, sunshine in moderate doses may help to reduce the risk of developing prostate cancer.

Flaxseed and Green Tea both have been proven to help reduce the occurrence of prostate cancer. Researchers at Duke University Medical Center found that a diet supplemented with grounded flaxseed significantly slowed growth of cancerous cells in prostate tumors and green tea consumed in capsule form (4/day) helped slow down prostate tumor growths in men who already had prostate cancer. The men who took the capsules were cancer patients being studied by Jim Cardelli of Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in Shreveport.

Written by Dr. KC Kelly, Ph.D.

Kongo said:

Pomegranite martini
Vasco, even if the vodka does cause a reaction, after a while you don't care so much.

As Dorothy Parker, a NYC socialite from a bygone era once quipped:

I love my martinis
Two at the most
Three I'm under the table
Four I'm under the host

K

martinis
After my 6th vodka martini, I started to giggle. I looked in the mirror and said "hello you shickled pit."

So sorry

to read about the recurrance after all these years.

I hope that Eligard will bring the PSA further down, but have you and your doctor considered additional treatment?

With respect to the side effects, perhaps switching to another ADT drug might work better for you and improve your quality of life.

I can't really comment on the intermittent vs continuous treatment strategies.