Radiation oncologist recommendation in Las Vegas?
Have to choose! Please help - Dr. Lawenda at 21st Century Oncology, or Dr. Schwartz at CCC or ?? Thank you ...
View ArticleMd Anderson center
Does anyone here has been to Md. Anderson center in Camden NJ? If so would you please share your experience/opinion about the center much appreciated ...
View ArticleMR Guided Radiation
Some very new info from the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto, introduces the "worlds first" MR guided radiation therapy. Dr. David Jaffray is heading up the leadership with this new...
View ArticleResisting A Cure For ED
Even though I've been a Medical Social Worker I had no clue I'd been suffering from PTSD, short for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Here's a copy of a blog I wrote this week as I reflect back on my...
View Articlefocal laser ablation patients
I am writing on behalf of my husband Earl. Thanks to this group we discovered the focal laser ablation procedure and the importance of an mp 3t MRI. Earl had been diagnosed Gleason 6 in 2007. He has...
View ArticleStudy shows regaining normal sexual functioning is rare after surgery
Published: 21 March 2015 “The occurrence of sexual dysfunction after prostate cancer surgery is well known but our method of evaluating it is new. What this work shows is that having an erection as...
View ArticleProton treatment story
at 8:05 am I had Proton done at Loma Linda in 2009, I was Gleason 9 so my Dr. shot me with hormones for three months before Protons, after either 20 or 25 Proton treatments Dr. Rossi informed me that ...
View ArticleHemp oil and CURE of cancer
Hello all, Any time that one of my relatives or friends that really care for give me new information every time that they come across another miracle cure. The last one is supposed to come from a...
View ArticleIt's all about How you handle plan B
Hello all, Last year on my birthday I received a splendid card from my wife. Inside she did put a nice note that it was about how we handle plan C ...
View ArticleImmunotherapy
Anyone else see 60 Minutes last night about the immunotherapy trials using the polio virus to shrink and even eradicate tumors? Looks pretty promising for all kinds of cancer tumors...will be more...
View ArticleFLA Assistance/Foundations/Scholarships?
Does anyone know of any kind of a grant type foundation for cost assistance with Focal Laser Ablation therapy? Also, I'm considering seeding if FLA proves to be cost prohibitive. Can anyone give me...
View ArticleSalvage Radiation with/without ADT Zoladex or Lucrin (Lupron in the USA)
Hi All, I could do with some advice on combining hormone treatment with Salvage radiation. I had a robotic prostatectomy in September 2012 and my PSA has risen ever since. Now at .3. The various...
View ArticleProton for lung cancer too???
I am a prostrate cancer proton patient at MD Anderson and all has gone well. My brother has lung cancer....any one know someone who has done well on proton for lung cancer? I have talked to a myriad of...
View ArticleCasodex 150MG
Has anyone taken Casodex at 150 mg / day with success or any problems? I am currently taking 50mg/ day with LuPron and no apparent problems so thinking of increasing it as I read where the maximum dose...
View ArticleMRI biopsy options
My urologist in Utah strongly recommends the standard random biopsy, As my Latest PSA is 8.36, up from 7.29 a year ago. I first crossed the line at 4.42 in 2005 and had a 10 sample negative biopsy. So ...
View ArticleFocal Laser Ablation - your answer
If I had a my choice again I would certainly consider having this treatment. There is no question ... No doubt in my mind at all. Just do it! Pity I didn't know what I know now. Read up and make and...
View ArticleADT Update
Hey guys, Just wanted to update everyone on my lastest tests....as always any input is appreciated. I left off my last ADT post I was 0.97 on 2/11/15. I was seeing a Uro, and while things were going...
View ArticleAnybody have experience with seeding
I was wondering about radiation seeding since it is one of the treatments my insurance covers. How does it compare to Proton Beam therapy ...
View ArticleAnybody have experience with seeding
I was wondering about radiation seeding since it is one of the treatments my insurance covers. How does it compare to Proton Beam therapy ...
View ArticleTUMT Transurethral Microwave Therapy options
I had been doing really well after IMRT and PSA under .1 for a year now , but I did have to SELF CATH for a few months after IMRT.- So about a couple week ago - I was told I needed a "laser" procedure ...
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