Talk Cancer

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IP they just cut the colon in two on both sides of the growth. Then sewed it back together. They fed me throught the veins and sure enough I had a bowel movement…albeit small and soft, but it happened. Also just passing gas was good enough for [...]

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Alan, I forgot to mention that I do have extensive bone mets and also have PCa in my Lypmh nodes. My prostate is still intact as the docs see no need to have it removed.

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Alan, I forgot to mention that I do have extensive bone mets [...]

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Good question.  This would be almost (but not quite) like asking for a tonsil transplant.
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I was going to get a discussion going about the advantages of getting a prostate from cadaver but  the thought just seems too morbid. [...]

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As you may remember, Jim completed 35 salvage IMRT radiation treatments in the beginning of October.  BTW-he did very well with almost no side effects.  His first PSA after that was taken right at the end of RT and came back at undetectable. I guess what I want to know is [...]

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I realize that the psa can continue to rise because of many reasons, my question is really, does the psa rise after a biopsy, due to the trauma created by the biopsy procedure. Barring any increase in the psa due to pca, or infection. When will the psa return ti its pre-biopsy [...]

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test–my levels continue to go down, even though at six months after radiation there is usually a surge (I think–or is it 18 months?.  This could very well mean that, as my oncologist. thought was very possible in my case, the cancer has been completely obliterated and will not, has not [...]

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I’d be interested in comments, good or bad, from anyone who had an RP with Dr. James Eastham at MSK, since I’ll be meeting with him soon. If anyone wishes to communicate privately, please remove the prostate from the following address: Many thanks,  RonL

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I’d be interested in comments, [...]

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I found the following website of the Internet Pathology Laboratory for Medical Education, of the Florida State University College of Medicine.  It’s got 10 year survival rates for various disease stages (only those with "stage A1, Incidental, <5% of volume" have a survival rate 50%, though presumably this is without [...]

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Have any of you guys suffered lower back, pelvic area or thigh pain attributable to Zoladex and/or Casodex?

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I have pain in the areas you mentioned but it is from the cancer, not from the meds. I had a load of other problems from the meds.  They actually lessoned the pain. [...]