Cancerous Prostate

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On March 10, Steve Kramer replied to the Drs. Bornfeld: (snip) I cannot answer the technicalities of your question, but my concern would be more for the different set or onset of side effects.  If he [...]

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If you read this newsgroup for more than 3 months you will see that we seem to go through this issue on a regular basis.  There are always those that will question regular PSA testing…some without good argument.  Enjoy yourselves. In my case, the regular testing found my post RP Gleason 3,5 [...]

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November 8, 2005 Scots prostate cancer patients denied Taxotere Our friend in Israel, Lenny Hirsch, has been fighting a lonely battle to try to get the health plan in his country to provide men with advanced prostate cancer a chance to receive Taxotere (docetaxel). Taxotere is the only chemotherapy drug [...]

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Prostate cancer cells use Wnt signaling proteins to promote growth of painful bone tumors Prostate cancer is a cruel disease. Left untreated, prostate cancer cells are often metastasize, or spread, to bone where they form fracture-prone tumors that are extremely painful.More than 80 percent of men who die from [...]

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – PSA Doubling Time Points to Prostate Cancer Outcome By David Douglas NEW YORK OCT 10, 2005 (Reuters Health) – Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) doubling time can help predicts clinical outcomes in patients with prostate cancer who have been [...]

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hi douwe – here’s an abstract about phase I testing on gene therapy of hormone refractory pca.  i listed other abstracts that may be of benefit….. ~ curtis Developmental Therapeutics Cancer gene therapy of hormone refractory prostate cancer. Results of a phase I trial of a retrovirally transfected IL2-IFN?-secreting [...]

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 Near 80 Years old, Gleason 9, no metastasis to the bone My father was just diagnosed. Suggested treatment is castration (doctor’s recommendation) or other hormone therapy. Can anyone just give me some random thoughts. Other possibilities? What to expect? Life expectancy? Thanks Life expectancy?  that was the question [...]

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Has anyone heard about the new early blood test for prostate screening.  It’s a prostate specific antigen that screens for metastic prostate cancer.  Apparently, it is pretty effective and can significantly reduces risk.  Let me know if you know anything about it.  I’m curious.  I was reading about it in an [...]

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I don’t have any magical answer for you and there are way too many variables with every case.  If the Zoladex drops the PSA and keeps it down you have many many years ahead of you. If it fails [...]

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Anybody else out there who gained weight during chemo?
I had a simple corticosteroid shot in my tennis elbow. Doc didn’t mention the primary SE of many steroids, including one small, localized injection: insatiable hunger. I put on 6-8 pounds in a month after having been at 185 for 40 [...]