Six in a row

BDCyclist

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Joined : Jun 2011

Posts : 182

Posted 3/23/2013 11:00 PM (GMT -7)

Just had my sixth undetectable PSA!!! Another six months until the next test.

Age 50 Dx 06/11
PSA 06/09 1.69; 08/10 2.94; 10/10 2.71; 02/11 2.63 & 2.96
DRE negative; Biopsy 06/11: 9 of 12 cores pos
GS 6 (3 + 3), PNI -, Clincal T1c
DaVinci surgery on 08/01/11; Cath out 08/09/11
Post-Op Path: T2cN0Mx, GS 7 (4 + 3), 20% TI, tumor 9mm; EPE -; SVI -; LNI -; PNI -; Margins -; Vol 39 gm
Incont-Dry at 5 wks; ED: 90%+ good (both nerves spared)
Zero Club Member - 6 Times

Steve n Dallas

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Joined : Mar 2008

Posts : 4863

Posted 3/24/2013 1:32 AM (GMT -7)

YEA.... Here's to a life time of Zeros...

Buddy Blank

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Joined : Jan 2013

Posts : 1477

Posted 3/24/2013 5:32 AM (GMT -7)

Congrats! Next will be Lucky 7!!

Purgatory

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Joined : Oct 2008

Posts : 25418

Posted 3/24/2013 8:13 AM (GMT -7)

What a winning streak!!! So happy for you.

david

Age: 60, 56 at PC dx, PSA 16.3
3rd Biopsy: 9/8 7 of 7 Positive, 40-90%, 4+3
open RP: 11/8, Catheter in 63 days
Path Rpt: 3+4, pT2c, 42g, 20% tumor, 1 pos margin
Incont & ED: None
Surgery Failed, recurrence within 9 months
Salvage Radiation 10/9-11/9, SRT failed within 9 months, PSA 4/12 = 37.x
Spent total of 1 ½ years on 21 catheters, Ileal Conduit Surgery 9/10,
7 other PC-related surgeries
Member of Prostate Cancer & Chronic Pain HW Communities since 10/2008
“I live in the weak and the wounded” – Session Nine (Movie)

Ed C. (Old67)

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Joined : Jan 2009

Posts : 2479

Posted 3/24/2013 9:40 AM (GMT -7)

Congratulations! You are on winning streak.

Tigerfan53

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Joined : Jan 2011

Posts : 929

Posted 3/24/2013 10:14 AM (GMT -7)

BDCyclist -- Awesome!!!

You're undefeated, yet all you've put up are ZEROs!!!

Celebrate

and Keep the streak going!!!

Best -- Tigerfan

A Yooper

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Joined : Jul 2012

Posts : 2143

Posted 3/24/2013 10:20 AM (GMT -7)

Hell Yeah!!!!! Congrats to you and thoughts and prayers to you for tons more zeros!

55 yrs old, excellent health - DX'd with PCa July '12
PSA 5.8
Biopsy 6/27/12
9 of 12 Gleason: 3+3 <5%, 3+3 <5%, 3+3 <5%, 3+3 <5%, 3+4 5-10%, 3+4 <5%, 3+4 5-10%, 3+4 30-40%, 3+4 15-20% (All neg PNI)
Negative DRE’s / NO / MO / T1C / Gland size 40gm / Vol. 22gm
Volume Study 8/14/12
Casodex 50mg daily 5 wks prior 2 wks post BT
LDR BT 9/21/12 – no issues
3 mo PSA 12/20 0.48!
6 mo PSA 3/14 0.21!

81GyGuy

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Joined : Oct 2012

Posts : 2399

Posted 3/24/2013 12:31 PM (GMT -7)

Congratulations!

Age: 67
Chronic prostatitis (age 60 on)
BPH w/ urinary obstruction, 6/2011
TURP, 7/2011
Ongoing high PSA, 7/2011-12/2011
Biopsy, 12/2011: positive 3/12 (90%, 70%, 5%)
Gleason 6, T1c
No mets, PCa likely still contained
IMRT w/ HT (Lupron), 4/2012-6/2012
PSA (8/3/2012): 0.1
PSA (12/7/2012): 0.1

Passages

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Joined : Sep 2012

Posts : 695

Posted 3/24/2013 3:25 PM (GMT -7)

Congrats!!

now 67, dx 49 PSA 4.2 RP 95
5+ yrs later radiation,Study pom PSA rise.
7+ yrs Lupron
9/12 bone mets, tumors. Study For Custersen. Control on Taxotere 9 treatments 10/18/11-4/12 PSA 5.2.
Zytiga -no se but PSA up to 57-5/12 to 7/12
8/12 started Jevtana
9/26 PSA 46.6 Se fatigue, chemo brain.
10/15 45.3
11/6 45.2
12/4/12 54.4
12/28 PSA 70.
1/15 PSA 85-start Xtandi
2/21/13 PSA160
3/19. 168 transfus

DonaldJ

Regular Member

Joined : Feb 2013

Posts : 451

Posted 3/24/2013 7:02 PM (GMT -7)

Congrats BD ! May there be many more 0's. 0>0>0>0>0>0>0

Age : 48 at Biopsy 01/21/2013, now 49
4 of 13 cores involved/ localized
Gleason Score : 3+3=6
5%,10%,50%,10%
Perineural invasion : Absent
Extraprostatic extension : Absent
PSA: 6.6 Orig. (12/03/12) 16cc
PSA (12-26-12) 3.1
% Free PSA : 20
T1c
Robotic Surgery scheduled April 8th/ Dr. Mani Menon

tatt2man

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Joined : Jan 2010

Posts : 2845

Posted 3/24/2013 7:40 PM (GMT -7)

Donald - you want that to read <0 ( less than zero)

BDC - congrats on the PSA <0.10 - zero club membership - there is no such thing as an absolute zero -

-here's to a lifetime of being undetectable

hugs,
Bronson

Age:57 -gay with spouse, Steve -Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
PSA:10/06/09 3.86
Biopsy:10/16/09- 2/12 cancerous, 5% -Gleason 7 (3+4)
Radical Prostatectomy:11/18/09
Pathology:pT3a -Gleason 7 -extraprostatic extension -perineural invasion -weight -34.1 gm
PSA:
2010-0.05/0.05 ..2011-0.02/0.02 ..2012-0.02/0.10/0.09 ..2013- 0.11 ..04/18/13-TBA

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