Had surgery 5 years ago and SRT three years ago. PSA is undetectable but now have blockage in the urinary track. Doc was unable to get the scope far enough in to determine exact cause, so it's off to...
Hello everyone, Been awhile and I see some old faces and sadly new ones as well. Wanted to give an update on the 1st year SRT Trial Background: Robotic surgery Sept 2008 with positive margins PSA...
JNF I am part of a clinical trial that is verifing the various protocols to use when there is a BCR. Doctors haven't agreed which method of therapy is best. SRT alone to the prostate bed, SRT to the...
David, It's been several months since I have visited this site and I wish you well. When I read this part"..For these guidelines, cancer pain is defined as pain that is attributable to cancer or its...
Just make sure you are treating a disease and not a number. Too many folks chase the PSA and not looking at the disease progression. Make sure of the trend before pulling the trigger on SRT. SRT is...
Skeeter...no offense here....BUT....DFW has some of the top ranked cancer centers in the world. UT Southwestern, Baylor, USMC just to name a few. Houston is good...not knocking them...but there are...
Visit with Dr. Pistenmaa there at UT. He was my radiation oncologist and I was happy with him....
Ted, There is a bit of misnomer about SRT. The role of SRT is not to kill the cancer cells directly, but to alter the cell structure so they can't multiple or to enable cell apoptosis (death -...
Jacob...no one mentioned this, but make sure the blood is drawn before the DRE because that will elevate the test results. Personally, I don't think I would wait the six months. I would retest at 3...
Dropped in to report some good news. My PSA came in at a whopping 0.16 which is way down from the initial .44 back in January. Looks like a success story so far. Figure the next test will let me back...
Sparky, I just finished SRT and won't get my first test until July. I asked my oncologist his take on this same subject. He said that low to intermediate grade cancers tend to still have a small rise...
Hang in there Mel. This is the week that you might start noticing the SE's. I am down to my last 4 days and so far every side effect that was going to happen, has happened. But nothing that I can't...
Good Question Reachout, There are two factors involved. The planning by the Radiation Oncologist and the experience level of the technicians at the machine. If the technicians get behind and don't...
What is your preference confused1? While biopsy is the only way to be certain if there is cancer or not...it can also miss finding cancer. This has happened more than what you might think. Several...
Tony....all the best to you and your efforts to raise awareness of this disease. My only thoughts are this. There is a local radio station here in Dallas, that daily promotes Prostate cancer testing...