Archive for the ‘Radiation Prostate Cancer’ Category
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We are all here for you J. We wish you the very best. Ron B. Chicago
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I’ll just add another factor to this discussion. 2 out of 18 cores positive (~10%) with a max Gleason of 5. Gleason of 5 = 2+3 or 3+2? Stage = ? How [...]
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Forgive me if this is a duplicate post. I posted this a couple of days ago and don’t see it anywhere. Hubby finished his 35 IMRT treatments last week. He tolerated them very well – so well that at times he worried that he wasn’t really getting any radiation! He was [...]
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Maybe they do it deliberately to distract you from worrying about the results. — Peter Headland
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On August 13, Steve Kramer responded to me: Sorry, Stephen. No intention to offend. I was talking about those plastic ribbons with magnetic backings on the back of cars. Started [...]
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My first PSA test after Lupron was 12 weeks. I don’t know how long it takes for PCa and PSA to deminish after ADT, but I’m guessing there is a good chance that in another six weeks you will have the result you desire. — Biopsy 11/01/2000 G7 (3+4), T2c [...]
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Mitchell S. Anscher, M.D. M.D. Medical College of Virginia, 1981. Internal Medicine, St. Mary’s Hospital, Connecticut, 1981-84. Radiation Oncology, Duke University Medical Center, North Carolina, 1984-87. Particular Clinical Interests: Urological oncology, brachytherapy for prostate cancer. Just FYI. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – (USA TODAY) [...]
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I have for the past two years monitored and read all the posts to this newsgroup since I was diagnosed in Aug of 2004 with prostate cancer after a 2nd biopsy resulting in a Gleason of 6 with a PSA of 3.7. Only 1 of 16 core samples of the 2nd biopsy [...]
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I have no stats, Hank, but congrats on the PSA. — Biopsy 11/01/2000 G7 (3+4), T2c RRP 12/15/2000 G7 (3+4), T3cN0M0 Neg margins PSA .1 .1 .1 .27 .37 .75 PSA .34 .22 .15 .21 .32 Lupron 07/03 (1 mo) 8/03 (4 mo), 12/03, 4/04, 09/04, 01/05 PSA [...]
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Interesting reading at this link: http://www.llu.edu/proton/history/index.html Apparently the idea of using protons therapeutically was proposed in 1946 and first tried 8 years later. But, as I surmised, it hasn’t been practical to implement it until much more recently. — Peter Headland
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hi dave – since this was one of [...]
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<snip – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -Don’t get too optimistic over that inline response or this bottom feeder: ‘-) – I swing three ways: I choose top, bottom, or in-line according to the scenario, in an attempt to make it simplest for the reader to follow, and [...]
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hi dick – probably because we would all be dead by the age of 70 and not included in the figures under the old ways when they gathered the facts. pca just didn’t pop up in men of our age group, it’s always been there. the fact that screening techniques are better [...]