My eosinophils have been elevated for at least two years. Most of the times I brought that up with several different doctors they all just said "it's probably allergies" and dismissed it. One doctor tested for parasites (Endolimax nana trophozoites) and prescribed an anti-parasitic, which did drop them for one month to normal the next test, but they've been elevated ever since, except for one other test.
A little google search shows there's a possible relationship to elevated eosinophils and certain cancers, including prostate cancer. The good news, is they seem to be protective for prostate cancer and go after the cancer cells.
I'm wondering if this may have been an early sign of my aPCa, because I'm still baffled by how my PSA went from 1.1 last November with a negative biopsy from TURP in March to full blown Stage IVB with bone and lymph mets last August. Or does the anti-parasitic disprove any relationship to cancer, and I'm just reinfected with them. My partner's doctor wouldn't even test him for the Endolimax nana trophozoites because "they're harmless and very common."
Just a thought exercise I guess, this won't change my treatment but I find it interesting and mysterious.
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maybe your biopsy and surgery contributed to the spread of your cancer?
that is only my hypothesis.
i really don't know but after reading your post that came to my mind. (Maybe that is not even possible but I don't have enough knowledge or experience to give you a final answer.)
i would like to know about your medical situation.
It wasn’t necessary. They removed large chunks of the prostate gland (5.8 grams measuring 4.8x4.0x2.0 cm) with the TURP that biopsied as GL 4+4= 8 in >90% of the sample. The urologist also visually identified cancer cells in the bladder neck. What would a needle biopsy reveal at that point?
Nothing that the MRI and PET scans didn’t catch. Isn’t the main point of a needle biopsy to see if there’s cancer that merits further diagnostics like MRI or PET? We already had that knowledge.
sorry, i didn't see a Gleason score of 8 in your profile. Maybe I just missed it. I just remembere that it is very frustrating to wait so long time for the biopsy
I have normal eosinophils and always have as far as I can remember. But I wanted to pass on a bit of information to you that you might want to try just like a wild guess type of thing. Back years ago I was looking for prostate cancer cures and one thing that came up was wormwood or artimisinin. I bought some online pretty cheap, It can be found in drugstores also. But what I bought was $12 for 90 capsules. I took one a day for a week and it seems to have killed a fairly large worm that I saw pass in my toilet. I guess it kills worms.
So reading your history I was just wondering if it might have something to do with your history. Maybe your treatment for worms killed off small microscopic worms but larger worms are causing some kind of PSA rise. I mean a worm in the right place might somehow stimulate prostate? I don't know but you might want to try wormwood for a week or so to see if it helps. Cost is not much and side effects are nominal, as long as you keep it down to a week or so.
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