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Foods/Supplements-Vitamins: Iodine & other Halides

This is a companion piece to Thursday's post: Foods/Supplements-Vitamins: Iodine DAILY Requirement. "The daily Dietary Reference Intake recommended by the...

This is a companion piece to Thursday's post: Foods/Supplements-Vitamins: Iodin...

pjoshea13

•8 years ago

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Foods/Supplements-Vitamins: Iodine

If you search PubMed for <prostate iodine> you will get over 1,500 hits. Unfortunately, most are related to Iodine-125-brachytherapy. In fact, I haven't...

If you search PubMed for <prostate iodine> you will get over 1,500 hits. Unfort...

pjoshea13

•8 years ago

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Question For The Board

Lupron has side effects like CVD, brain fog, and loss of sex drive because it wipes out T production. Also because of castrate T, DHT is usually not a problem....

Lupron has side effects like CVD, brain fog, and loss of sex drive because it wi...

gusgold

•8 years ago

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Effects of casodez

I've been on Lupron for 2 years. Went on Casodex last month. PSA had risen from 1.5 to 3.4. Very small mets in pelvis, but at my age 79, Radiologist thinks the...

I've been on Lupron for 2 years. Went on Casodex last month. PSA had risen from ...

George79

•8 years ago

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ALP bounce early in Zytiga treatment

Has anyone experienced an early alkaline phosphatase bounce after starting Zytiga? Please see link below. Apparently, an early, significant increase of ALP...

Has anyone experienced an early alkaline phosphatase bounce after starting Zytig...

Cancersucks

•8 years ago

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jUST CURIOUS

So I am just curious because I see a lot of people on this site and others that seem to go long periods of time on Lupron successfully. Many articles say...

So I am just curious because I see a lot of people on this site and others that ...

shealy

•8 years ago

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Prostate Cancer Radiation treatments

I've been on Lupron for four months now (2nd injection) and my PSA dropped from 139 to 0.28 with tolerable side effects, no metastasis. Doctors say I'm not...

I've been on Lupron for four months now (2nd injection) and my PSA dropped from ...

Donder

•8 years ago

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Foods/Supplements-Vitamins: Genistein

Genistein is a polyphenol. Family classification as follows: Polyphenol ---> Flavonoid ---> Isoflavonoid ---> Isoflavone. It is a phytoestrogen. The...

Genistein is a polyphenol. Family classification as follows: Polyphenol ---> F...

pjoshea13

•8 years ago

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What a turn around!

Hi Everyone, Between April and early July, my PSA doubled three times. Lupron gave up. It was 29 the week I started Xofigo. That was July 20, my most recent...

Hi Everyone, Between April and early July, my PSA doubled three times. Lupron ga...

Hidden

•8 years ago

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Gleason score in Prostate Cancer YouTube video hits 3,000 views

I just noticed today that my YouTube video on Gleason score in advanced prostate cancer has hit 3,000 views. Gleason score in advanced prostate cancer Gleason...

I just noticed today that my YouTube video on Gleason score in advanced prostate...

JimJimJimJim

•8 years ago

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VA ratings and C&P exam for Prostate cancer

Hello all, I'm hoping a fellow vet with agent orange proven prostate cancer can help me out here. Last year I was diagnosed,(biopsy proven) stage 4 with mets...

Hello all, I'm hoping a fellow vet with agent orange proven prostate cancer can ...

Hidden

•8 years ago

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65 years old

Been on lupron and zometta 4 1/2 years stopped working was prescribe zytiga went to va, I was told they don't carry it, went to local pharmacy was tools a cost...

Been on lupron and zometta 4 1/2 years stopped working was prescribe zytiga went...

donmounts

•8 years ago

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Predictors of duration of Zytiga in men with CRPC.

New Dana-Farber / Sloan Kettering study [1] below. Not a lot of cases - 161. "All had received primary androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT)" (median duration 23...

New Dana-Farber / Sloan Kettering study [1] below. Not a lot of cases - 161. "Al...

pjoshea13

•8 years ago

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Low-dose aspirin or other NSAID use and PCa risk

New Danish study [1] below. Yes, yet another aspirin study. I don't know how these Nordic studies do it. I get how the central health system knows about the...

New Danish study [1] below. Yes, yet another aspirin study. I don't know how th...

pjoshea13

•8 years ago

1 Reply

Foods/Supplements-Vitamins: Low-Carbohydrate Diets

Typically, a low-carb diet will be high in fats. There is no obvious reason to compensate with higher levels of protein. Ansel Keys fudged his data in the...

Typically, a low-carb diet will be high in fats. There is no obvious reason to ...

pjoshea13

•8 years ago

1 Reply

Next steps?

After 13 cycles of docetaxel and 4 of cabazitaxel, both have stopped working, at least alone. CT and bone scans yesterday both showed modest progression in...

After 13 cycles of docetaxel and 4 of cabazitaxel, both have stopped working, at...

Gecrellin

•8 years ago

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Agent Orange

I hope this is not a double post because I can't find the last one that I wrote. Does anyone in our group know if colorectal cancer is labeled as caused by...

I hope this is not a double post because I can't find the last one that I wrote....

erjlg3

•8 years ago

15 Replies

Blood transfusion

Had 2 units yesterday lo HB -just went for Zometa

Bryan_Metcalf_UK

•8 years ago

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Galeterone for the treatment of advanced prostate cancer: the evidence to date

New paper below. Note that the link is to the full text & some will want to read that. Resistance to Enzalutamide (Xtandi) and Abiraterone (Zytiga) is often...

New paper below. Note that the link is to the full text & some will want to rea...

pjoshea13

•8 years ago

9 Replies

PCa & Blood fatty acid patterns.

New study below (from the Physicians' Health Study). (OR = odds ratio, i.e. relative risk) "Fatty acids levels were measured in whole blood samples of 476...

New study below (from the Physicians' Health Study). (OR = odds ratio, i.e. re...

pjoshea13

•8 years ago

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Xtandi side effects

Since starting Xtandi a month ago, I have been adjusting to the medication and I find it has made me weak and foggy brained, but I also have a lot of bone...

Since starting Xtandi a month ago, I have been adjusting to the medication and I...

MrJack

•8 years ago

9 Replies

Newly Diagnosed any advise?

My brother in law aged 60 just diagnosed metastatic in pelvis gleason scale 9. Life expectancy 18 month to 2 years on hormone therapy looking at next steps.

My brother in law aged 60 just diagnosed metastatic in pelvis gleason scale 9. L...

jorton

•8 years ago

27 Replies

Reason for the change to Eligard

I recently was told the reason my medication was changed from Lupron to Eligard was because the hospital has a different vendor. I'm looking forward to getting...

I recently was told the reason my medication was changed from Lupron to Eligard ...

Jeff54

•8 years ago

12 Replies

Elgie's Chromogranin a lab result

LG's lab results just popped into the portal. The number on the chromogranin a is 23. It belongs under 5. I'm just not sure that's a huge difference. I just...

LG's lab results just popped into the portal. The number on the chromogranin a ...

erjlg3

•8 years ago

16 Replies

CVS-Caremark to stop covering Xtandi in 2017

Just an FYI... It was announced that CVS-Caremark (that pays for my drugs) will stop covering Xtandi starting in 2017. They site the "hyperinflation" for this...

Just an FYI... It was announced that CVS-Caremark (that pays for my drugs) will ...

Dr_WHO

•8 years ago

18 Replies

Foods/Supplements-Vitamins: Folate

Folate, vitamin B9, is found in leafy green vegetables, as the name suggests, although there are other food sources too. However, a significant percentage of...

Folate, vitamin B9, is found in leafy green vegetables, as the name suggests, al...

pjoshea13

•8 years ago

4 Replies

Zytiga and nausea

Ex is having bad issues with nausea/vomiting and last week decreased his dose of Zytiga from 4 to 3 pills/day, which has helped a little. Onc doesn't feel the...

Ex is having bad issues with nausea/vomiting and last week decreased his dose of...

Cancersucks

•8 years ago

23 Replies

Managing pain

I start my radiotherapy in a week. As I have mentioned previously 39 sessions planned. In the interim I am managing the pain with Targin 20/10 twice a day and...

I start my radiotherapy in a week. As I have mentioned previously 39 sessions pl...

Christor13

•8 years ago

1 Reply

Posts - Advanced Prostate Cancer | HealthUnlocked

Advanced Prostate Cancer

All posts for August 2016

Foods/Supplements-Vitamins: Iodine & other Halides

Foods/Supplements-Vitamins: Iodine

Question For The Board

Effects of casodez

ALP bounce early in Zytiga treatment

jUST CURIOUS

Prostate Cancer Radiation treatments

Foods/Supplements-Vitamins: Genistein

What a turn around!

Gleason score in Prostate Cancer YouTube video hits 3,000 views

VA ratings and C&P exam for Prostate cancer

65 years old

Predictors of duration of Zytiga in men with CRPC.

Low-dose aspirin or other NSAID use and PCa risk

Foods/Supplements-Vitamins: Low-Carbohydrate Diets

Next steps?

Agent Orange

Blood transfusion

Galeterone for the treatment of advanced prostate cancer: the evidence to date

PCa & Blood fatty acid patterns.

Xtandi side effects

Newly Diagnosed any advise?

Reason for the change to Eligard

Elgie's Chromogranin a lab result

CVS-Caremark to stop covering Xtandi in 2017

Foods/Supplements-Vitamins: Folate

Zytiga and nausea

Managing pain

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