Cancerous Prostate

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Here Here !! – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I’d better follow my own rule: make your decision, and don’t look back. jimhoney standard RRP age 52, cured, no significant aftereffects Oh great, a new set of statistics showing that I should not have [...]

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 Viagra, similar drugs out of U.S. government insurance programs   WASHINGTON: The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a law 285-121 that bars government insurance programs Medicaid and Medicare from paying for Viagra and other medicines that treat sexual impotence in men. Pushing the amendment, Representative Steve King, Republican, Iowa, [...]

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Bill…The news article that Curtis posted to begin this thread, is not well written (like so many of these medical news alerts!), it misinforms.  I’ve posted the abstract below.  It is important to note that the study actually compared RP and WW, HT/RT only came into play when the WW men [...]

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I’m really quite suprised to learn from this group how (vitally) important potency is to the lives of so many people, I had know idea this was the case. I’m 55, single, and really have no interest in that anymore (the hormones aren’t raging like they did 20-30 years ago). I [...]

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I wonder if it has anything to do with the physical fat that has to be gotten through just to get to the walnut-sized prostate.  I’m still amazed the my doc got to mine. — Prostate Cancer Survivor (so far), not a doctor Biopsy 11/01/2000 G7 (3+4), T2c RRP [...]

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Hi Curtis, Thank you for posting that good article. The oncology  radiologist told me the same thing the last time I saw him. Not a big difference if the salvage radiation is given when PSA is lower than 1. I think I will wait and drink a lot of green tea, [...]

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Man these doctors are so different in how they manage these cases. My surgeon has said nothing about stool softeners prior to surgery and nothing like the puree and bran either. I will be taking FibreCon afterward, but I don’t know anything about prior to the operation. I think the Pancake [...]

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This weekend marks the two year anniversary of my diagnosis.  Some Thanksgiving present,eh.  I look back in amazement at how fearful I was, scared beyond belief, angry, upset, and totally knocked off balance by this most unexpected news.  At first I was sure that it was to be my last Thanksgiving! [...]

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I don’t know where your home town is, but I can tell you that I’m pretty sure that the residents at a good university hospital probably do a better job than our local surgeons! [...]

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Since the subject of incontinence has come up a couple of times lately – is if that wasn’t normal. But it sparked a thought in my brain. There is something called a flannel waterproof sheet that is made for crib mattresses. It’s a rubber thingy with a flannel covering. I’m not sure [...]