Here We Go Again...They Told Us No Survival Benefit with Avodart

[gusgold]

Though not an endpoint of the study it sure looks like a survival benefit for the guys with enlarged prostate

Gus

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/281...

[Pennysue1]

Gus - I can't believe mayo dr said that - what a dick - I would have said something to him -

[gusgold in reply to Pennysue1]

Penny

I told Nalakrats what he said and Nal told me he was going down to Mayo and would punch the Doc out when he was done fishing..the only problem is no one has seen Nal since he took his leaky row boat out on the lake...I think Nal is sleeping with the fish so it looks like the Doc got off light this time

[Pennysue1 in reply to gusgold]

I hope Nal turns up - hope he's safe somewhere - keep us informed - my husband is going fishing in a couple of days when he feels like it - he has to watch for stinking gators here -

He's starting Provenge feb 10 next Friday - his prostate cancer is in his lymph nodes

[gusgold in reply to Pennysue1]

Penny,

is your guy castrate resistant....I wanted to try Provenge and they told me I had to have metastatic castrate resistant prostrate cancer

[Pennysue1 in reply to gusgold]

Yes mike is castrate resistant

If this doesn't work he's going to try Casodex

[gusgold in reply to Pennysue1]

Penny,

he should do provenge/xtandi..they just closed a big clinical trial

[Pennysue1 in reply to gusgold]

Yes mike is castrate resistant- we hope this works - medicare supplement United health care AARP approved it - we live in the villages, FL - the treatment will be in Ocala, Fl -

[Pennysue1]

Mike tried zytiga for 4 months - did not work - took a bunch of radiation to relieve swelling in lymph nodes