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Steve jobs' Last Words!

Steve Jobs was Apple Computer's famous co-founder and CEO. An American entrepreneur, inventor an industrial designer born on 24th February 1955. He died on 5th...

Steve Jobs was Apple Computer's famous co-founder and CEO. An American entrepren...

Sisira

•7 years ago

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Latest Prostate Cancer Treatments & Shared Decision Making

Video of three world famous doctors and me, talking about the latest prostate cancer treatments and shared decision making.......

Video of three world famous doctors and me, talking about the latest prostate c...

Darryl

Partner•7 years ago

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Dr. Myers Alternatives

Hi--In light of Dr. Snuffy Myers' upcoming retirement, I am reaching out another time to seek any further suggestions from Dr. Myers' patients and others as to...

Hi--In light of Dr. Snuffy Myers' upcoming retirement, I am reaching out another...

4luvofrob

•7 years ago

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hormone therapy and Salvage radiation with PSA at 2.41

I have had two radiologists recommend hormone therapy with salvage radiation with my PSA at 2.41. My choline PET scan shows only a local re-occcurnence at the...

I have had two radiologists recommend hormone therapy with salvage radiation wit...

Jackleh

•7 years ago

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Taxotere side effects..

Hello to everyone....my father afteer 15-16 chemotherapy sessions feels his legs numbed and cant walk without help ....doctor said that this can be a side...

Hello to everyone....my father afteer 15-16 chemotherapy sessions feels his legs...

lyrikos

•7 years ago

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Keep on fighting

I was 50 healthy black man in school when I got the news. I was scared about how the families were going to take the news. So I had mine remove. And I battle...

I was 50 healthy black man in school when I got the news. I was scared about how...

burgesssr

•7 years ago

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Zytiga to xtandi sequence

Anyone have a good run on both. They say they are cross resistant.

Drcrunch

•7 years ago

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New drugs

Opdivo. Released last week. Keytuda. Released two weeks ago. Best of all Both may be life savers. I am on Xtandi. 20 year victim.

Opdivo. Released last week. Keytuda. Released two weeks ago. Best of all Both ...

DSim

•7 years ago

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Livalo: A Safer Statin?

I had some problems with lipid-soluble Simvastatin a while ago. It took several months before my liver enzymes fell into the normal range. After reading the...

I had some problems with lipid-soluble Simvastatin a while ago. It took several ...

Kuanyin

•7 years ago

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Cholesterol in high-grade and lethal PCa.

New study below. I was never a fan of statins. My GP offered me one when my total cholesterol went above 200. It seemed absurd that more that half the U.S....

New study below. I was never a fan of statins. My GP offered me one when my tot...

pjoshea13

•7 years ago

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Oncologist told my Stepdad there is nothing else he can do for him.

My Stepdad was diagnosed last August with stage 4 prostate cancer that metastasized to his bones. They started him on taxatere* and his platelets levels...

My Stepdad was diagnosed last August with stage 4 prostate cancer that metastasi...

lkw16

•7 years ago

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Young prostate patient

I am 46 and have stage 4 prostate cancer, diagnosed at 45. not sure they even know what to really do with me. 6 rounds of taxater with Luprin and 3 months...

I am 46 and have stage 4 prostate cancer, diagnosed at 45. not sure they even...

Ssullivan19706

•7 years ago

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Grading PCA

When I was initially diagnosed, I was told that I was Stage 4, G9, with lymph node involvement, with a second opinion to verify it. I've been going thru some...

When I was initially diagnosed, I was told that I was Stage 4, G9, with lymph no...

Hidden

•7 years ago

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Doubling Time- Huh?

As many here know, I'm on Lupron and Zytiga. My PSA was hovering around 1, about six months ago. It started to go up by .2 increments, and today is 2.5. Just...

As many here know, I'm on Lupron and Zytiga. My PSA was hovering around 1, about...

Hidden

•7 years ago

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PCA breakput

PSA kept rising in spring and cancer broke out several weeks ago. Much pain in pelvis and upper body. Vèry start of 10 radiation treatments and pain gone...

PSA kept rising in spring and cancer broke out several weeks ago. Much pain in p...

bhammel

•7 years ago

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PSA Bounce and 2nd Opinions

Hi all, First, just want to thank everyone for the support throughout this process. Soon after my father was diagnosed w advanced PC (gleason 10, age 59 -now...

Hi all, First, just want to thank everyone for the support throughout this proce...

anya6

•7 years ago

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BIRM users

I asked my Onc about BIRM today, and he had never heard of it, which didn't surprise me. I explained what it was, and that the NIH was given a mil to study it....

I asked my Onc about BIRM today, and he had never heard of it, which didn't surp...

Hidden

•7 years ago

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Resveratrol & ARV7

New study below. AR-V7 is a truncated but active form of AR (androgen receptor). Its emergence is a common cause of resistance to Zytiga & Xtandi. "First, we...

New study below. AR-V7 is a truncated but active form of AR (androgen receptor)....

pjoshea13

•7 years ago

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Free metformin

https://www.blinkhealth.com/metformin

bjp62

•7 years ago

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Onco Rage Caused by Gator Blood (BIRM) is Similar To Roid Rage...

Yu Chen (Nalakrats) experienced Onco Rage after his wife spiked his creatine drink with a whole bottle of Gator Blood (BIRM)...so far Onco Rage is the only...

Yu Chen (Nalakrats) experienced Onco Rage after his wife spiked his creatine dri...

gusgold

•7 years ago

14 Replies

communication

re/communication deficit on the part of doctors, it was not my intent to limit it to terminal illness conversations, or to oncologist, or to their penmanship....

re/communication deficit on the part of doctors, it was not my intent to limit i...

joeoconnell

•7 years ago

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LATITUDE - Zytiga & ADT - NEJM Paper

Further to my "LATITUDE - Zytiga & ADT" post, here is the study paper. "The two primary end points were overall survival and radiographic progression-free...

Further to my "LATITUDE - Zytiga & ADT" post, here is the study paper. "The tw...

pjoshea13

•7 years ago

7 Replies

Barley grass extract.

New Korean cell study. Posted without much enthusiasm, since this is the only PCa study. Barley grass extract is mostly available as part of a blended...

New Korean cell study. Posted without much enthusiasm, since this is the only PC...

pjoshea13

•7 years ago

5 Replies

Grape seed extract

Has anyone here tried using grape seed extract to try to slow down PCA, if so please tell me what type and brand. Article on the net said it could slow it down...

Has anyone here tried using grape seed extract to try to slow down PCA, if so pl...

dbrooks_h

•7 years ago

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STAMPEDE - Zytiga at ADT initiation. NEJM Paper.

-Patrick http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1702900?query=OF ORIGINAL ARTICLE Abiraterone for Prostate Cancer Not Previously Treated with Hormone...

-Patrick http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1702900?query=OF ORIGINAL AR...

pjoshea13

•7 years ago

7 Replies

Taking Abiraterone with food

I have been taking for the last six months or so, 3 abiraterone with my evening meal and then one at bed time. This certainly dropped my PSA initially, but...

I have been taking for the last six months or so, 3 abiraterone with my evening ...

NiallMcC

•7 years ago

11 Replies

joe's ranting again

i think where ever they train doctors they should have a class on communication. that is an area that needs improvement

i think where ever they train doctors they should have a class on communication....

joeoconnell

•7 years ago

6 Replies

Early Abiraterone plus ADT gives survival benefit, but may not be accessible to Aussie's for a while.

As you may be aware, there has been a lot on the internet recently about adding Abiraterone to ADT early before becoming castrate resistant and a significant...

As you may be aware, there has been a lot on the internet recently about adding ...

paulofaus

•7 years ago

33 Replies

Dad was told to stop Xtandi

My dad started xtandi and prednisone. His PSA was 13 since taking his meds and shots the PSA went down to a 4.0 Doctor office called and young lady told me to...

My dad started xtandi and prednisone. His PSA was 13 since taking his meds and s...

Olivia007

•7 years ago

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BEST HOSPITAL/TREATMENT FOR ADVANCED PC?

planning for treatments, and unsure which place best for mets pc? Top line up is Memorial Sloan Kettering, MD Anderson, John Hopkins, Mayo Clinic MN and Dana...

planning for treatments, and unsure which place best for mets pc? Top line up i...

rickym1

•7 years ago

61 Replies

Posts - Advanced Prostate Cancer | HealthUnlocked

Advanced Prostate Cancer

All posts for June 2017

Steve jobs' Last Words!

Latest Prostate Cancer Treatments & Shared Decision Making

Dr. Myers Alternatives

hormone therapy and Salvage radiation with PSA at 2.41

Taxotere side effects..

Keep on fighting

Zytiga to xtandi sequence

New drugs

Livalo: A Safer Statin?

Cholesterol in high-grade and lethal PCa.

Oncologist told my Stepdad there is nothing else he can do for him.

Young prostate patient

Grading PCA

Doubling Time- Huh?

PCA breakput

PSA Bounce and 2nd Opinions

BIRM users

Resveratrol & ARV7

Free metformin

Onco Rage Caused by Gator Blood (BIRM) is Similar To Roid Rage...

communication

LATITUDE - Zytiga & ADT - NEJM Paper

Barley grass extract.

Grape seed extract

STAMPEDE - Zytiga at ADT initiation. NEJM Paper.

Taking Abiraterone with food

joe's ranting again

Early Abiraterone plus ADT gives survival benefit, but may not be accessible to Aussie's for a while.

Dad was told to stop Xtandi

BEST HOSPITAL/TREATMENT FOR ADVANCED PC?

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