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Helping men with prostate cancer.
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humor - retirement.....
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Question: How many days in a week? Answer: 6 Saturdays, 1 Sunday Question: When is a retiree's bedtime? Answer: Retirement
Question: How many days in a week?
Answer: 6 Saturdays, 1 Sunday Question: When is a retiree's bedtime?
Answer: Three hours after he falls asleep on the couch.... more »
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New Cancer Fact Search Site
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Hello,
Just wanted to let you know about our brand new Cancer Fact Search site ([link]). If you are looking for answers to your Cancer questions, feel free to stop by anytime.
Cancer Fact Search gives you access to several million facts related to the field of Cancer. Furthermore, this Knowledge Base (KB) continuously keeps... more »
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Update on Active Surveillance - 8 Years
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Steve,
My latest quarterly "active surveillance" testing continues a relatively positive trend. My PSA was 1.80, the lowest it's been for a couple of years.
Thus far I have been on this path for eight years. I was diagnosed in 2005 with a Gleason of 6 (3+3) in small portions of two cores, confirmed by Johns... more »
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PING Alan Meyer
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Alan
After a few hours of frustration, I finally managed to read news in Thunderbird!
The email works OK too :)
Thanks again for the suggestion
CC
-- Reply to newsgroup as email is FAKE
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Radiation is over
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HI All,
Today was my last session of radiation therapy. I had 42 sessions. I have had very little side effects. A couple of times with strong radiation burn pain in the bladder and colon. My cancer pain is gone and the radiation burn pain is only occasional. We will get a PSA test in one month and then follow up in another two months. That will tell if the PSA is coming down. Other than the fact that I had to show up every day, Monday thru Friday, this was really not bad at all.... more »
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Agent Orange tied to aggressive prostate cancer risk......
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Agent Orange tied to aggressive prostate cancer risk
By Genevra Pittman Reuters/Reuters - Soldiers detect Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) and
defoliant Agent Orange during the launch of the "environmental
remediation of dioxin contamination" project, in Vietnam's central Da
Nang City …more June 17, 2011. REUTERS/Kham less ... more »
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PSA Update
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I am pleased to report that my PSA remains at <0.1. Chemo trial ended January 8, 2005. My last Lupron injection was February 11, 2010.
Next blood draw in 120 days. Keep kicking the bastard.
Gourd Dancer
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the end is near now...
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my step uncle is dying. this is the one who has had pca for over 25 years. he is able to live at home with hospice care. he had a stroke in
march, which left him restricted on one side of his body. he constantly
drools and his speech is affected, but his mind if ok.
when he was in the hospital, they did the bone scan and told him that... more »
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Just out: the 2013 salvage radiation guidelines by which doctors treat us
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Adjuvant and Salvage Radiotherapy after Prostatectomy: ASTRO/AUA Guideline
The purpose of this guideline is to provide a clinical framework for the use of radiotherapy after prostatectomy in patients with and without evidence of prostate cancer recurrence.
Methods
A systematic review of the literature using the Pubmed, Embase and... more »
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PSA down
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After five weeks of Xtandi my PSA has dropped from 8 to 2. I will be
looking for future reductions.
---MIKE---
In the White Mountains of New Hampshire (44 15' N - Elevation 1580')
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