Zero club

Glad to see you have renewed your membership into the club. You are indeed right we are not just lucky we are blessed to be able to live another day and fight this disease. I encourage everyone when you have a new lease on life to enjoy it. I will pray you have many more years in the zero club.

Peace love and grace
dale

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My PSA at diagnosis was 16.3

age 47 (current)

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

My gleason score from prostate was 4+5=9 and from the lymph nodes (3 positive) 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 .016

PSA Mar 30th, 2009 is .02

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

T level dropped to 37 Mar 30th, 2009

cancer in 4 of 6 cores

92%

80%

37%

28%

Great news.  Here's wishing you a long, long lifetime of continued zero's.  David

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Diagnosed Dec 2007 during annual routine physical at age 55

PSA doubled from previous year from 1.5 to 3.2

12 biopsies - 2 pos; 2 marginal

Gleason 3+3; upgraded to 4+3 post surgery

RRP 4 Feb 08; both nerves spared

Good pathology - no margins - all encapsulated

Catheter out Feb 13 - pad free Feb 16

PSA every 90 days - ZERO's everytime!

Great wife and family who take very good care of me

Oncologist! Whats going on Dave?

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Open retropubic prostatectomy 12-15-2008

Catheter removed 2 weeks later, no leakage problems

Margins clear, nodes clean

Return to work 6 weeks post-op

Resumed regular workout routine 8 weeks post-op

Taking Cialis daily

Age  55

pre-surgery PSA 9.04

3 month post-op PSA 0.07

Fantastic News, hope you have many more.

Randy

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46 you when diagnosed, now 48
Pre-Op PSA 9.9
1 of 12 cores positive, Gleason 3+3
DaVinci on 9/5/2007
Post-Op Gleason 3+6, Negative Nodes and Margins
Less than 1% of prostate involved with CA
3 Month PSA 0.01, 6 Month PSA 0.01, 9 Month PSA 0.01
One Year PSA 0.01, 18 month PSA 0.01
Incontinence resolved 9/15/2007, one day after cath removal
ED showing significant improvement.
Occasional Success with Oral Meds
Success with BiMix