Cancerous Prostate

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I.P. Smoke-Free
This may be your best.

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It certainly did not work for me. — Peter Headland

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New Mexico "Mexican food" is uniquely based on fresh local chili peppers. I know residents who refuse to eat Mexican food outside its borders because everything else is just bland Tex-Mex. When I [...]

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Such an inspiring, illuminating, infectiously pioneering post Mike…and a perspective so upbeat I could even plump for HIFU myself! The surgeon I met with was interested but – because of lack of mature data – neutral.. he offered up the idea to me none the less – as you say they [...]

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ok – now – anyone got any suggestions on where or what to hook the electrodes to?? Scientists from Old Dominion University and Eastern Virginia Medical School say they’ve killed melanomas in mice using high-powered jolts of electricity.   Using extremely short, high-voltage doses of electricity, the researchers told [...]

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Semen-based Test For Prostate Cancer To Be Developed By Proteome Systems Ltd And US-based Egenix Inc March 10, 2006. Proteome Systems Ltd (ASX: PXL) today announced the signing of an agreement with the New York-based biotechnology company, Egenix Inc to co-develop a semen-based diagnostic kit for prostate cancer based on [...]

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I met with a surgeon last week to discuss options for treatment (gl(3+4), PSA 7, t1c, 61 years).  He tells me he’s also treating using HIFU – though it’s too early to have useful data on its efficacy. Any thoughts here on this method? almost did, but [...]

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Two months ago, my urologist called to tell  me that my prostate biopsy had revealed a tiny bit of cancer and  that he wanted to talk face to face with me and my wife. Malignancy indicated in about 10 percent of one of 12 cores taken. "Very   early stage" according [...]

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Present Status; PSA    3.1    02/01/2000 PSA    2.7    01/02/2002 PSA    6.4    10/01/2003    PSA Free 17% Biopsy         12/15/2003    12 Needles.Negative. Biopsy         03/29/2004    12 Needles.Left Side=10% of one core positive.         [...]

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – If I do radiation, I can not have surgery later, but the reverse is possible.  This is the ONLY advantage I see from surgery so far.  I am leaning towards it. Did you do your nomograms on the www.mskcc.org [...]

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LA Times article: A New View on Prostate Cancer Treating elderly men right after diagnosis is better than the current ‘watchful waiting’ approach, a study indicates. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-prostate26feb26,… 23124.story?coll=la-home-nation
As the article states, statisticians don’t like studies of this type, called observational studies.  That is [...]

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There is an interesting new article out that shows that intermittent androgen ablation (IAA) with testosterone (T) and finasteride (F) in the off-cycle, produces tumor of ~5 times less size than what results from continuous androgen ablation (CAA) or standard IAA.  The abstract can be seen at: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/112221624/ABSTRACT What [...]