The rule of nadir + 2 for recurrence after radiation treatment is a general formula used by many. In my case, I reached a nadir of 0.1 after brachytherapy for Gleason 3 + 3 cancer. Five years after...
PSA 4.0 is simply a reference point. When my PSA rose from 2.0 to 3.4 over a period of about 2 years, my primary care doctor referred me to an urologist. A biopsy found Gleason 3 + 3 prostate cancer...
Two years after I had brachytherapy for low volume Gleason 3 + 3 prostate cancer, my RO told me "You are cured". I objected by saying "You mean I am in remission". Guess what, in 2016 my cancer came...
All my life I have been eating bitter gourd. My Gleason 3 + 3 (biopsy) treated with brachytherapy in 2011 is now metastatic with many lymph node involvement. I don't believe in any form of natural...
I was diagnosed with Gleason 3 + 3 prostate cancer with 10% of 2/12 core. It was low volume low grade cancer. I went for seed implant. I had extra-prostatic recurrence in 2016, treated with...
RT often have the tendency to brush away any increase in PSA after radiation treatment as a PSA bounce. It happened to me twice. In 2011, I had brachytherapy in June 2011 for Gleason 3 + 3 prostate...
ADT side effects can vary from person to person. But often it is so much hyped up that some people try to avoid ADT even though it can be essential for their treatment. I have been on ADT for nine...
I was 70 when diagnosed with Gleason 3 + 3 prostate cancer in 2011. I had brachytherapy but the cancer came back in the form of an extra-capsular mass in 2016, which probably resulted from a Gleason...
it is one month since I started taking Casodex and 17 days since first Lupron shot. Now I am having hot flashes regularly. Every day when I get up from bed I have an episode like clockwork. Somedays...
If you want to argue whether, a G6 cancer can or cannot metastasize, please start a new thread....
halbert, In my case, the URO did the initial diagnosis and the RO that treated me with brachytherapy should have advised me to go for second opinion on the biopsy and recommended further testing. On...
If the billing amount means nothing, then why bill insane amounts....
In 2017, I had Lupron shots in an URO's office. Medicare was billed around $2000 and Medicare paid about a quarter of that. This time I had the shot in a hospital. Medicare was billed about $16000...
If a person's T is close to low normal, it is possible for hot flushes can start just a few days after the first Lupron shot. Before I had the Firmagon and Lupron shots in 2016, I did not know what...
In 2016, I had three months of Firmagon followed by six months of Lupron as part of cyberknife treatment of my prostate cancer recurrence. Within four or five days of first Firmagon shot I started...