Please define the Zero Club

Radical

Veteran Member

Joined : Mar 2009

Posts : 739

Posted 3/14/2009 10:23 PM (GMT -7)

Hi Guys, being a new member here, I am reading those wonderfull success stories of Membership to the ZERO club. Not sure if I am a member or not (0.03), or do I have to be

0.00 or ,<0.01. Sorry for my ignorance, but I am just a little confused

Cus If I am a member, I'm looking for life membership please !

Cheers All........Rookey

Age 51yrs

DX 11/11/08

6 out of 8 cores positive 3 X 60% / 3 X 10%

PSA 4

Gleason 3+4=7

Stage T1c

Robotic Surgery 24/12/08

Upgrade Gleason 4+3=7

Stage T2c

Neg Margins and Nodes

Nil - Extraprostatic Extentions

Dry less than 1 week (unbelievable)

ED- taking Meds/ No result yet

PSA 28/1/09 0.03

PSA 24/2/09 0.03

"Everyday in Everyway I get better"

Tony Crispino

Veteran Member

Joined : Dec 2006

Posts : 8129

Posted 3/14/2009 10:50 PM (GMT -7)

Hey Rookey,
If this was a dysfunctional family we be saying you are a big zero...As a matter of fact this group puts the "fun" in dysfunction..

.

So you have had a great result, you should be very happy with that number. I live my life as undetectable defned as <0.1. You are there...

Great job! And good healing!

Tony

Age 46 (44 when Dx)

Pre-op PSA was 19.8 : Surgery at The City of Hope on February 16, 2007

Geason 4+3=7, Stage pT3b, N0, Mx

Positive Margins (PM), Extra Prostatic Extension (EPE) : Bilateral Seminal vesicle invasion (SVI)

HT began in May, '07 with Lupron and Casodex 50mg (2 Year ADT)

IMRT radiation for 38 Treatments ending August 3, '07

Current PSA (January 13, 2009): <0.1

My Journal is at Tony's Blog

My InfoLink page is at Tony's Prostate Cancer InfoLink Page

STAY POSITIVE!

Radical

Veteran Member

Joined : Mar 2009

Posts : 739

Posted 3/14/2009 11:04 PM (GMT -7)

Tks Tony, I have read alot of your postings in this forum and enjoyed everyone of them, please don't stop, as your imput has been invaluable, in my opinion.

Cheers

Rookey

Age 51yrs

DX 11/11/08

6 out of 8 cores positive 3 X 60% / 3 X 10%

PSA 4

Gleason 3+4=7

Stage T1c

Robotic Surgery 24/12/08

Upgrade Gleason 4+3=7

Stage T2c

Three small foci total volume 10%

Neg Margins and Nodes

Nil - Extraprostatic Extentions

Dry less than 1 week (unbelievable)

ED- taking Meds/ No result yet

PSA 28/1/09 0.03

PSA 24/2/09 0.03

"Everyday in Everyway I get better"

livinadream

Veteran Member

Joined : Apr 2008

Posts : 1382

Posted 3/15/2009 5:33 AM (GMT -7)

Rookey, welcome to the club or forum. You my friend are in the zero club. We are a simple group of men hoping and praying that our next PSA test starts with a zero on the right side of the decimal point. To some outside of PCa it is probably foolish, however for us it is life. There are so many that are not able to share in the joy of zero's in their personal battle however it is safe to say that the mere fact that so many here post their test results it does give encouragement to all. As a member for over a year now I am fully aware that I am at any time only a test away from being out of the zero club. So to sum it up we celebrate the entrance of those coming in and we mourn the exist of those going out. It is our little way of celebrating a disease we have come to hate. Thank you for being with us here in HW.

peace and love

dale

My PSA at diagnosis was 16.3

age 46 (current)

http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/dalechildress

My gleason score from prostate was 4+5=9 and from the lymph nodes was 4+4=8

I had 44 IMRT's

Casodex

Currently on Lupron

I go to The Cancer Treatment Center of America

Married with two kids

latest PSA 5-27-08 0.11

PSA July 24th, 2008 is 0.04

PSA Dec 16th, 2008 is .06

Testosterone keeps rising, the current number is 156, up from 57 in May

cancer in 4 of 6 cores

92%

80%

37%

28%

Purgatory

Elite Member

Joined : Oct 2008

Posts : 25440

Posted 3/15/2009 6:41 AM (GMT -7)

THought it was simply less than .1, as in <.1

Age 56, 56 at DX, PSA 7/7 5.8, 7/8 12.3,9/8 14.5

3rd Biopsy Sept 08: Positive 7 of 7 cores, 40-90%, Gleason 7, 4+3

Open RP surgery 11/14/8, Right nerves spared, 4 days hospital, staples out 11/24/8, 5th cath out on 1/19/9

Post-surgery Pathlogy Report:Gleason 3+4=7, pT2c, 42 grm, tumor 20%, Contained in capsular, clear margins, clear lymph nodes

First PSA Post Surgery 2/9 .05, 6 month on 5/9

Cajun Jeff

Veteran Member

Joined : Mar 2009

Posts : 4131

Posted 3/15/2009 3:54 PM (GMT -7)

I have been reading the board and got a great deal of information from you guys. I am 5 months out last PSA was 0.03 Lowest reading from the lab. I am greatful but still have ED issues.

Purgatory

Elite Member

Joined : Oct 2008

Posts : 25440

Posted 3/15/2009 4:07 PM (GMT -7)

Hello and welcome here, corvetteman. Glad you decided to join us in a visible way, lol. Why don't you post your stats. With a .03, you are already doing quite well. ED, that is a loaded one with so many variable and time frames.

David in SC

Age 56, 56 at DX, PSA 7/7 5.8, 7/8 12.3,9/8 14.5

3rd Biopsy Sept 08: Positive 7 of 7 cores, 40-90%, Gleason 7, 4+3

Open RP surgery 11/14/8, Right nerves spared, 4 days hospital, staples out 11/24/8, 5th cath out on 1/19/9

Post-surgery Pathlogy Report:Gleason 3+4=7, pT2c, 42 grm, tumor 20%, Contained in capsular, clear margins, clear lymph nodes

First PSA Post Surgery 2/9 .05, 6 month on 5/9

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