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Advanced Prostate Cancer

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Biggest Decision Making Factor to Joining a Clinical Trial

Although we are looking to recruit individuals for a prostate cancer clinical tr...

Residential greenness and risk of prostate cancer.

New study - for what it's worth: "Men living in greener areas, either recently o...
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Frustrated

After 3 cycles on a research study which used docetaxel and Carboplatin along wi...
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Concurrent Androgen and Estrogen Ablation and Inhibition of Steroid Biosynthetic Enzyme Treatment for Castration-resistant Prostate Cancer

This was an interesting paper https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27466486 ...
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Percent Free PSA

Anyone know the answer... a man has an RP which fails and goes on IADT (Lupron) ...
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American Horror Story

Chuck had PCa G 7(4+3)...had a RP which failed...BCR at 8 months...Had SRT which...
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Prostate cancer and erections

I had prostate brachytherapy about a year ago. Will I ever be able to have an er...

Foods/Supplements-Vitamins: Medicinal Fungi - Button mushroom - Agaricus bisporus

Surely I jest? The lowly white button mushroom [WBM] contains an aromatase inhib...
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Foods/Supplements-Vitamins: Medicinal Fungi - Oyster mushroom - Pleurotus ostreatus

Can vegans eat oyster mushrooms?: "The oyster mushroom is one of the few known c...
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Foods/Supplements-Vitamins: Medicinal Fungi - Maitake - Grifola frondosa

While there are maitake cancer studies on PubMed, there are none for PCa. [1] Wi...

Foods/Supplements-Vitamins: Medicinal Fungi - Shiitake - Lentinula edodes

A PubMed search for <cancer Lentinula edodes> returns 64 hits (& 56 for <cancer ...

Prednisone/Inflammation

Quite a lot of us are taking Prednisone along with Xgeva, Zytiga, etc. I underst...
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Foods/Supplements-Vitamins: Medicinal Fungi - Agaricus blazei

As you can see from the Wiki-page [1] there is agaricus research involving a doz...

Foods/Supplements-Vitamins: Medicinal Fungi - Cordyceps militaris - Cordyceps sinensis

Interest in Cordyceps militaris for PCa is recent (only 4 studies) & mostly Kore...
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who knows this ?

To all you scientists out there My husband takes Xtandi We plan to only take i...
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Foods/Supplements-Vitamins: Medicinal Fungi - Reishi - Ganoderma lucidum

[1] "Ganoderma lucidum is widely used and recommended by Asian physicians and n...

Foods/Supplements-Vitamins: Medicinal Fungi - Turkey Tail (Coriolus versicolor)

Turkey tail is a common enough medicinal mushroom [1]. Why try it? Study [5] exp...
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Foods/supplements: can you please share your integrative protocol if you do take vitamins and supplements?

I have general knowledge on supplements,and believe it will be necessary to help...

Making Medicare as a Primary Insurance

Has anyone had any experience with what insurance is primary if they have medica...
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Contact CVS and Demand They Get Out of Our Doctor's Office and Supply the Cancer Drugs Our Doctors Prescribe

CVS Pharmacy is hurting millions of cancer patients by refusing to sell, after J...
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Surgery then cannabis

Pre-surgery PSA and Gleason score 8.6 and 3+4. RALP July 2009, pathology Gleason...
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Stage iv. Adt ...adding chemo? Number of sessions cycles? Different protocols? Cold caps?

So far 2 docs. Advised chemo as the next step to distaste stage Iv PCa withsny m...

Yeast and cancer ? Associated?

I read that when testing for prostate cancer that scientists test for three type...

Price of Medicine

Does any one know if Medicare helps pay on any of these high price cancer medica...
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Foods/Supplements-Vitamins: Medicinal Fungi - Chaga - Inonotus obliquus

“He could not imagine any greater joy than to go away into the woods for months ...
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For USA - CVS Pharmacy to Stop Selling Xtandi and other Cancer Drugs

Please share this: CVS Pharmacy is hurting millions of cancer patients by refusi...
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Tumor near sacrum

I have been fighting prostate cancer since 2009. I have had robotic prostatecto...
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Stage 4 Prostate cancer

Three years ago told I had prostate cancer. After 28 bioposies 27 was cancer. Gl...
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Foods/Supplements-Vitamins: Magnesium

The latest LEF magazine hypes magnesium as the "new vitamin D". What they mean ...
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Full Diagnosis :-(

I wrote s couple of weeks ago about my husband having a PSA of 6006. We now have...
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