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Swan: You are so right. A few years back my wife and I hopped onto a crowded bus in Mexico City. It was evening rush hour, and we were the only tourists among people who had been working hard all...

Yesterday 9:26 PM

Prostate Cancer
LU-177 - My Next Treatment

Wonderful news Steve. Gives us all hope:...

5/30/2022 2:20 PM

Prostate Cancer
Supply Chain Shortage: CONTRAST DYE & LU-177

With you on that prayer Steve. America is falling apart at the seams....

5/23/2022 7:52 PM

Prostate Cancer
Supply Chain Shortage: CONTRAST DYE & LU-177

I did a video consult yesterday with staff at Sloan Kettering. I offered congratulations to all staff about the FDA approval of LU-177 coming out of the study led by my MO at Sloan. The staff person...

5/19/2022 7:13 AM

Prostate Cancer
English Alf still around

Great News English Alf, Good for you! Any chance you guys could take Harry back?...

5/10/2022 4:27 PM

Prostate Cancer
What are you thoughts on this?

Ray, Gleason 8 can never be said to be finally defeated. But it can be pushed back, made undetectable for good blocks of time, all the while with great QOL. Many levels of treatment possible. I have...

5/4/2022 1:30 PM

Prostate Cancer
FDA Approves Promising Therapy for Advanced PCa:

Dr. Morris has been my MO at MSK since 2011. Terrific physician. Great news that Lu-177 has gotten FDA approval. As Bohemond writes above we can expect further trials to test efficacy on less...

4/29/2022 10:06 PM

Prostate Cancer
How do you think your life would have gone if no cancer had happened?

Well, I would still be 78. I was diagnosed after my wife and I had retired, and other than big medical treatment (surgery, salvage) the disease has not really taken much of my time. As far as I know...

4/27/2022 5:27 AM

Prostate Cancer
End of Treatment

Jerry, You and your wife are inspiring. Thinking of both of you… Bill...

3/12/2022 8:31 AM

Prostate Cancer
Phase 3 ARASENS clinical trial - Good Results for mHSPC patients

Good result. Always good to have another arrow in the quiver before castrate resistance....

2/22/2022 5:18 PM

Prostate Cancer
Waiting for the Now

Logo, the Now was Then....

12/18/2021 2:00 PM

Prostate Cancer
12 Years and Counting with a Gleason 8

For new guys, it is possible to go a long, long ways with a Gleason 8. I am at 12+ years since diagnosis, and have led a full life with no significant side effects, with the exception of that One Big...

12/18/2021 1:44 PM

Prostate Cancer
PSA Trending Up-Treat or Watch

Keep in mind that hormone therapy puts selective pressure to favor survival of cells that are hormone independent. Hormone therapy also produces SE and wear and tear on the body. Not an easy choice....

12/14/2021 8:54 PM

Prostate Cancer
What was your experience having prostate removed?

Met the robot in November, 2009. Released from the hospital 16 hours later. Slept most of next two days until anesthesia wore off. Cath for one week. Almost no pain. A year later repair of hernia...

11/29/2021 9:36 PM

Prostate Cancer
Tomorrow's the Day

I had a hip replacement in June. I was still awake for 10 minutes or so in the OR. I was chatting with the young anesthesiologist standing behind me. I had already gotten a spinal, so I asked if she...

11/4/2021 8:48 PM

Prostate Cancer
Some Good News

Congratulations. And many more Undetectable to come....

11/3/2021 7:49 PM

Prostate Cancer
PSA rising exponentially..

Agree with halbert. Biopsy. Maybe will be a bit uncomfortable. Not a big deal. Gotta know....

11/3/2021 7:46 PM

Prostate Cancer
Changed my treatment decision

Well put Logo. And good luck, Jack....

10/20/2021 5:24 AM

Prostate Cancer
I got curious...

Hey Logo, You give us young guys hope. Congratulations....

10/8/2021 8:10 PM

Prostate Cancer
14 year PSA Results are in!

Beachbum, you have the right idea. Congratulations!...

10/5/2021 3:25 PM

Prostate Cancer
ADT doing its job - the good and the bad

On my second ADT go round. First time, gained weight. This time lost weight. Difference is a low carb diet. For me, exercise alone would not do the trick. Not fun, but works. Best eishes....

9/25/2021 8:26 PM

Prostate Cancer
Waiting for test results is often the hardest part

Good news. Happy for both of you....

8/27/2021 2:26 PM

Prostate Cancer
I just wanna do/say the “right” things

Stephanie, I am sorry to read of Jeff’s situation and your mutual pain. All I can offer is the thought that attitude or hopefulness has little or nothing to do with how long we may live. My Irish...

8/17/2021 8:08 PM

Prostate Cancer
CONCERNED ABOUT PSA

Also, note that DRE cannot examine the surface of the entire gland. DRE can be invaluable though — a friend’s life may well have been saved 15 years ago by his Primary Doc who felt a very small...

7/22/2021 10:56 AM

Prostate Cancer
Eleven years out

Clock, I am at the 11 1/2 year mark. Back then, I knew Nothing like Sergeant Schultze, but having a Gleason 8, I am amazed and grateful to be here. A long, winding road indeed. Best wishes… Bill...

6/22/2021 1:10 PM

Prostate Cancer
How Not to Think about ADT while on ADT

Have a hip replacement. Had my right hip replaced this past week by the same surgeon who did my leftie 14 years ago. Recovery and rehab going great. My MO wrote to my surgeon before indicating no...

6/20/2021 9:38 AM

Prostate Cancer
Update after several years

Reachout, Same approach with me. Had SRT 2011-12, PSA vacationed until 2015. MO monitored for near six years, before resuming treatment this past January. Really grateful for those six years without...

6/20/2021 9:19 AM

Prostate Cancer
The cure for cancer: will it come from hard lab work, ... or from serendipity?

Cancer is not one disease, say like cholera, but many diseases. If not exponentially, this variety adds tremendous challenges, and costs, to the search for treatments....

6/15/2021 1:57 PM

Prostate Cancer
UPDATE ONE YEAR ON ADT

Great response. Best wishes!...

6/9/2021 2:01 PM

Prostate Cancer
Lupron - What to expect

Most of the way the through a six month Lupron shot. SE minor — a little flushed few times a day, probably fatigue more often when doing outdoor gardening or walking. Had Lupron six month course nine...

6/7/2021 12:31 PM

Prostate Cancer
Newly Diagnosed 3+4

Joe, I have a friend who followed his urologist’s advice and chose AS with a Gleason 7 for over two years. Not good. Midway in year three his PSA spiked. A second biopsy came back at Gleason 8. Opted...

5/2/2021 7:41 PM

Prostate Cancer
Vaccination Status as of Mid-March 2021

Fully as of Feb 25....

3/22/2021 1:39 PM

Prostate Cancer
OT: Current Reading

Recently read, or on my night stand, are: “Hamnet,” a novel about Shakespeare’s family back in Stratford at a time of plague; “Caste,” by Isabel Wilkerson, a review of American history through the...

3/20/2021 9:42 AM

Prostate Cancer
So many books...so little time

Mattam, me too.....

3/18/2021 8:53 PM

Prostate Cancer
Husband newly diagnosed

BWeaver, Sorry to read about your husband. You will encounter a lot of Gleason 8 and 9 guys on this Board who have been around a long, long time. I see you are in Oklahoma — my wife grew up in Tulsa....

3/18/2021 4:44 PM

Prostate Cancer
So many books...so little time

Books are central for my wife and I. Especially for me since my other central thing has gone away after years of PCa. Belong to a Mens’ Book Group — at 77 I am about at the median age. We try to read...

3/18/2021 1:33 PM

Prostate Cancer
I have to go away now and I may not return

Very sorry for your loss....

3/8/2021 11:07 AM

Prostate Cancer
Lupron and lack of side effects

I have been on Degarelix and now Lupron for seven weeks with no noticeable SE -- a little flushed now and then, very minor. Nine years ago I did six months of Lupron -- had hot flashes then, weirdly...

3/1/2021 4:31 PM

Prostate Cancer
Interesting Article Re BAT

Thanks Cyclone — you are a role model of both success and grace. Best wishes....

2/27/2021 10:08 AM

Prostate Cancer
Vaccine-seeking, DISGRACEFUL

Mel, Seems to be the same everywhere. Have a friend in New Mexico who has to drive five hours to Texas. Here in upstate New York, some friends driving 150 miles after jumping through frustrations...

2/26/2021 1:03 PM

Prostate Cancer
Dogs

For canine pleasure, the Aussie film “Red Dog” streaming on Prime is funny, good natured and warm hearted. That may be a little hard to take. And yes, there is a dog....

2/26/2021 10:31 AM

Prostate Cancer
Interesting Article Re BAT

https://www.medpagetoday.com/hematologyoncology/prostatecancer/91333 This article is interesting regarding BAT. Effort to delay transition to castrate resistance. Hopefully. As for myself I am six...

2/26/2021 9:11 AM

Prostate Cancer
Corona vaccine OT

My wife has had 2 Modernas. I have had one. No SE for either of us....

2/15/2021 12:26 PM

Prostate Cancer
I am writing a book

Gone to a major cancer center, with a deep bench, for treating PCa....

2/10/2021 5:36 PM

Prostate Cancer
This is embarrassing

Had similar problem with weight gain first time on ADT back on 2011-12. Took four month diet after to get rid of it. Started ADT again this past month. This time I also started with a low carb diet....

2/3/2021 8:41 AM

Prostate Cancer
PCa Cancer Diagnosis and Mortality Increasing

This is a very valuable, if disquieting thread. Thanks to the contributors above. I agree with mufjem that the problem rests not in the test but the decision making process after. After PSA emerged...

1/26/2021 10:21 PM

Prostate Cancer
Tough Decisions....Advice Appreciated

Depends on how much uncertainty your Dad can tolerate. There is no one size fits all at your Dad’s point of disease progression. As you know ADT does present quality of life issues and also has a...

1/25/2021 10:05 PM

Prostate Cancer
It's a new era, with new Hope!

Yes mattam, to all of us....

1/20/2021 9:06 PM

Prostate Cancer
St. Peters Albany NY

I had surgery at St Peter’s in the fall of 2009. Very much a mixed bag. Moved my case to Sloan-Kettering in the fall of 2011. If you would like further information, please use email. Best wishes......

1/2/2021 10:24 AM

Prostate Cancer
Help With Treatment Decision

DonJ, I am considering the same trial. In a nutshell, my PSA doubling time started accelerating this past summer, my MO sees my current doubling time as five months (year ago it was one year), PSA...

12/28/2020 2:44 PM

Prostate Cancer
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