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Advanced Prostate Cancer

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Happy Fourth of July y'all

Did my liver Panel so I could renew Abiraterone Rx. Sported my latest mask and my Virtual 5k run tee for Tehachapi Parks and Recs. Signed up with a Team to do...

Did my liver Panel so I could renew Abiraterone Rx. Sported my latest mask and ...

•4 years ago

Started treatment

Hi, My name is Isabel. I am Portuguese and I live in Portugal. My message is related to a diagnosis of prostate adenocarcinoma, Gleason (3 + 4), initially...

Hi, My name is Isabel. I am Portuguese and I live in Portugal. My message is rel...

•4 years ago

PSA rising.

Well just had consultation with oncologist thought things were looking up after hormone therapy brought PSA down to 7.1 from 433 at diagnosis in September 2019...

Well just had consultation with oncologist thought things were looking up after ...

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•4 years ago

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Relugolix versus Leuprolide - Neal Shore video.

Balsam01 & others have posted on the study, but not many responded. The study is re-posted below [2]. Neal Shore was the author & he speaks in [1]. Note that...

Balsam01 & others have posted on the study, but not many responded. The study i...

•4 years ago

itchy

88 today-been on lupron since 2007 added zitiga and prednisone in 2017, all the side effects but last year have had severe itchiness on flanks=helped a bit by...

88 today-been on lupron since 2007 added zitiga and prednisone in 2017, all the...

•4 years ago

Xtandi after Zytiga

Quick question... anyone have success on Xtandi after failure of Zytiga? (8 months)

Quick question... anyone have success on Xtandi after failure of Zytiga? (8 mont...

•4 years ago

Diet for PCa?

I am learning so much from all of you, and your posts give me so much hope! I am Gleason nine stage 4 Oligometastatic with 5 bone Mets. I was diagnosed in late...

I am learning so much from all of you, and your posts give me so much hope! I am...

•4 years ago

chemotherapy can trigger blood vessel anomalies leading to drug resistance

https://www.genengnews.com/news/chemotherapy-cantrigger-blood-vessel-anomalies-leading-to-drug-resistance/?fbclid=IwAR35QF2ISdcweg1vKYAex9gqjSWLgb2HsaneoQpsGt2D

https://www.genengnews.com/news/chemotherapy-cantrigger-blood-vessel-anomalies-l...

•4 years ago

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Casodex failure? What's next?

Short story: -42 yr old husband had RALP in the summer of 2017 -Undetectable until Jan of 2019 -IMRT from April-June of 2019 (in addition to bicalutamide which...

Short story: -42 yr old husband had RALP in the summer of 2017 -Undetectable unt...

•4 years ago

The hardest question....life expectancy

My husband, 60 yrs old, dx with mpca in Jan has had Lupron in Feb and May. PSA was always low, only went up to 4.1 pre treatment, then down to 0.3 before...

My husband, 60 yrs old, dx with mpca in Jan has had Lupron in Feb and May. PSA ...

•4 years ago

Does PSMA testing from biopsy sample give same information as PSMA scan? How do they differ? Which type PSMA scan is best?

Hi all, one of our consults mentioned using material from husband"s bone biopsy material to assess PSMA, and said it could be done at his hospital as ours...

Hi all, one of our consults mentioned using material from husband"s bone biopsy...

•4 years ago

Antihypertensive drugs & PCa-specific mortality

New study from Finland [1]. This topic has been raised before. "Antihypertensive drug use overall was associated with an increased risk of PCa-specific death...

New study from Finland [1]. This topic has been raised before. "Antihypertensive...

•4 years ago

Montreal diets & PCa

New study. Will have some up in arms. There is, of course, a traditional French influence in the diet of the region. So a "Western" dietary pattern might be...

New study. Will have some up in arms. There is, of course, a traditional French...

•4 years ago

from the American Urological Association 2020 Virtual Meeting

Radical Prostatectomy as Primary Treatment for Prostate Cancer Leads to Better Survival June 16, 2020, Wayne Kuznar (looks familiar, but I...

Radical Prostatectomy as Primary Treatment for Prostate Cancer Leads to Better S...

•4 years ago

Latest CT Scan and Radiation

Of course this is mostly a link to a blog post, but the highlights along with a few extra details exclusive to this forum are: 1) I had a great response to...

Of course this is mostly a link to a blog post, but the highlights along with a ...

•4 years ago

Erleada and PSA raising to 1000's

Hello Hope everyone is safe in this awful times. My dad got 7 chemo (Paclitaxel with Carboplatin) so far and his PSA went from 50 to 1200 and with chemo went...

Hello Hope everyone is safe in this awful times. My dad got 7 chemo (Paclitaxel...

•4 years ago

Xtandi added with Lupron

My husband has been on Lupron for 8 years and is becoming resistant as his PSA keeps rising. Oncol. now wants to add xtandi to his treatment plan. Haven't been...

My husband has been on Lupron for 8 years and is becoming resistant as his PSA k...

•4 years ago

j.o.h.n

since long no news on from John.. any body has any news bout him

since long no news on from John.. any body has any news bout him

•4 years ago

Anxiety and sleep quality - aromatherapy

Somebody asked a while ago about ideas to help sleep. Here is a paper on aromatherapy. Aromatherapy: The effect of lavender on anxiety and sleep quality in...

Somebody asked a while ago about ideas to help sleep. Here is a paper on aromath...

•4 years ago

Docetaxel vs Zytiga

Good Morning Shipmates, I need some advice. I started on Lupron in Jan 2019 and reached a PSA nadir of 0.9 ng/dl in June 2019. Since then my PSA doubling...

Good Morning Shipmates, I need some advice. I started on Lupron in Jan 2019 an...

•4 years ago

Help with choosing treatment pathway

Would really appreciate feedback from members as to the Pros and Cons of recommended treatment pathways. I'm 67 years old and have had not health issues...

Would really appreciate feedback from members as to the Pros and Cons of recomme...

•4 years ago

Is Radiation the way to go

Hello all, My question: Is radiation treatment the way to go? I am newly diagnosed with Biochemical Recurrent PC. From Dr. Childs notes:Date of diagnosis:...

Hello all, My question: Is radiation treatment the way to go? I am newly diagnos...

•4 years ago

COVID mortality and cancer treatment

Good news: chemotherapy and other cancer treatments does not appear to increase risk of dying from COVID-19. Bad news: major predictors of severe COVID...

Good news: chemotherapy and other cancer treatments does not appear to increase ...

•4 years ago

New guy just looking for information as I start this journey.

I’m new here. Tomorrow I’m having an MRI and in the afternoon getting my first shot of Lupron. I’m afraid I don’t understand all of the terminology in the...

I’m new here. Tomorrow I’m having an MRI and in the afternoon getting my first ...

•4 years ago

It was suggested to proceed with a harpoon trial at Ohsu led by Dr beers. Every week until until it no longer works,

I had a teleconference with Dr Beers today, he suggested discontinuing docetaxal based on a consistent increase in PSA 2.7 to 4.4 to 9.3 3 sessions increase....

I had a teleconference with Dr Beers today, he suggested discontinuing docetaxa...

•4 years ago

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