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....
Great response. Best wishes!...
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...
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...
Fully as of Feb 25....
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...
Mattam, me too.....
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....
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...
Very sorry for your loss....
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...
Thanks Cyclone — you are a role model of both success and grace. Best wishes....
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...
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....
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...
My wife has had 2 Modernas. I have had one. No SE for either of us....
Gone to a major cancer center, with a deep bench, for treating PCa....
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....
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...
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...
Yes mattam, to all of us....
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......
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...
Good news!...
Oh, I thought you meant the Election?...
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Coen Brothers film “A Serious Man” speaks to the kind of year you have had. Dark comedy, but what can we do? Hope ‘21 is better. Best wishes,...
I had an umbilical hernia in consequence of PCa surgery. Waited a year and a half to have it fixed. Great surgeon on the patch up. No mesh required. Did require general anesthesia. IN and OUT like...
My son is 51, very well and expensively educated (I am sure I bought one of his Ivy League professors a nice beach condo say on Maui), successful lawyer. He declines to have regular PSA monitoring....
What I remember most about the James Bond movies was not James Bond, but Ursula Andress emerging bikini clad from the ocean in the first film “Dr No.” Made an indelible impression on my 17 year old...
Great to read!...
BB, Sorry to read this. I remember you from when I first joined this forum. My treatment history back in 2009-12, similar to yours. Wishing you well....
The Year of Living Dangerously....
Less. Sleep 6 - 7 hours, usually starting around midnight. Eight hours or more is long past. My wife goes to bed around 10, so the next two hours are spent reading, unless I indulge myself with...
Always get mine in about two hours using patient portal. Incredibly fast and inexpensive tool....
Excellent news!...
Great numbers. Steady on....
Soccer, I would echo the view that testing PSA at least quarterly going forward is the way to go. Most cancers cannot be readily tracked with quick, inexpensive blood work. PCa can. This is a...
Prato, No, we have never discussed a “trigger” point. My MO says the decision to start ADT will be contextual, as opposed to a fixed number. I am good with that, and rely on his call....
Had my six month set of scans at Memorial Sloan Kettering last week -- actually nine months, due to COVID restrictions back in April. My pattern continues. Bone and CT still clean, PSA continues its...
I have been a patient at MSK since the fall of 2011. I went there after it became evident that the surgery I had in 2009 in upstate NY had failed. All my experience has been at the Main Hospital or...
Depends on how much uncertainty you can tolerate. At this point you might consider going to a Medical Oncologist who probably would order imaging scans to look for mets. If negative, the issue...
Masks work best when everyone wears masks. Here in our part of upstate NY the “mask line” is still holding. Very busy at the supermarket today, more shoppers, baskets full as they have been since...
Great post. Yes this site is special, and important for me for 10+ years now. Thanks for saying it... Bill...
Mattam, I agree with your take. I do flu shots each fall, but still seem to get a cold/flu every winter. My guess a vaccine will be a step forward, but hardly a game changer. I expect that I will be...
Happy Birthday! And many more....
Prato, I am getting set of scans at MSK Main on July 23 — had originally been scheduled in April. So have had no scans now for nine months — time to take a look, and I have been all in with MSK since...
Economically, the US could borrow tens of trillions more to help hospitals, medical practices, businesses, the sick, the underinsured, and the unemployed for the next two-three years. Capitalism has...
Super. Congrats!...
I am patient at MSK in NY. Mutually agreed to indefinitely postpone set of scans that had been scheduled for late April. I live upstate, out of the “hot” zone in and around the City. Trying to do...