Your treatment choice may vary depending on whether you prioritize survival or side effects. For young and healthy men with high-risk localized PCa they have better survival with RP compared with...
Antioxidants protect both healthy cells and cancer cells, if you have cancer they accelerate tumor development and cancer spread. It doesn't matter if the antioxidants comes from food or supplements....
Redwing - This study Surgery vs Radiotherapy in the Management of Biopsy Gleason Score 9-10 Prostate Cancer and the Risk of Mortality is not "lumped" with G8! Interestingly, the study concludes that...
I think oldbeek's URO is correct. The ultrasensitive PSA tests (anything below 0.1) often causes anxiety in the patients even when the reported PSA rise is clinically insignificant. So many who begin...
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For those who lack Tall Allens view on current studies here is a link to his blog where he comments about whole pelvic radiation with short term ADT....
Smara - no, most recurrences happen between 2 - 5 years. Then the risk gets lower. If there were 100 men having surgery at the same time: 0 - 2 years: 18 men have BCR (82% recurrence free at 2 years)...
Yes, it will be harder for the body to handle attacks of cancerous cells if you have chronic anxiety. The anxiety can even open up new pathways through lymph system so that the cancer can spread more...
Will there be a way to "like" a post or a thread?...
I think this is an incorrect perception. One reason is that "the nadir+2 definition of failed RT" will delay the determination of biochemical failure for many years for those who chose radiation, as...
You mean Cyberknife? I guess nobody knows if it is feasible for ART/SRT yet. It could be! It has just not been tried out in enough number of trials. Efficiency and toxicity are not known. Here is one...
It is a huge difference if your PSA is .03 two months post surgery or two years post surgery. The former requires early SRT but for the latter it would be over treatment. There is absolutely no...
I was 100.0 % continent from day one. The one and only pad I ever tested was at catheter removal day and it was dry when I throw it away. Never experienced stress incontinence. The only difference...
I do as JNF and follow both forums. That forum seems to be somewhat smaller though, it currently has 4771 topics when this have 34086! Good that you have the same user name over there. I notice that...
At the same conference in Munich they also presented the RCT about Omega-3. Same result as for aspirin The largest and longest placebo-controlled randomized trial of omega-3 fatty acid (as found in...