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High PSA Apparently Due To Infection?

I am a healthy 73 year old. I had my first PSA test in 2015 and the result was 3.5 and a second test in 2016 resulted in the same reading. Direct rectal...

I am a healthy 73 year old. I had my first PSA test in 2015 and the result was ...

Dekrib

•6 years ago

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Falling PSA

I have not been officially diagnosed yet. My only symptom was a reduced urine flow. In October I had a DRE and my prostate was "slightly enlarged". The doctor...

I have not been officially diagnosed yet. My only symptom was a reduced urine fl...

Hidden

•6 years ago

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ORCHIECTOMY OR ADT??

Having side effects from ADT. Hot flashes, no libido, penile shortening. Testicles now shrunk to size of a grape. I understand orchiectomy is simple and...

Having side effects from ADT. Hot flashes, no libido, penile shortening. Testicl...

steinmother

•6 years ago

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Sometimes the medicine works

I met someone this weekend who told me about a friend of his who had a radical prostatectomy in 1990. It didn't do the job and he soon had radiation. That...

I met someone this weekend who told me about a friend of his who had a radical p...

AlanMeyer

Moderator•6 years ago

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Help Needed! Space Oar Gel option

Diagnosed at 75 with prostate adenocarcinoma involving 60% of overall specimen in left anterior horn with perineural invasion. Biopsy of left lobe prostatic...

Diagnosed at 75 with prostate adenocarcinoma involving 60% of overall specimen i...

Boomer75

•6 years ago

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Lupron, A Fib, What to Do?

Robotic surgery Dec 2015, PSA 0.52 March 2016, PSA 0.64 June 2016. June 2016 first Lupron shot, 4 weeks later A Fib after 10 years without had cardio...

Robotic surgery Dec 2015, PSA 0.52 March 2016, PSA 0.64 June 2016. June 2016 fi...

gottodealwithit

•6 years ago

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ED, LIBIDO, PUMPS and PILLS

This regards my experiences pre and post prostate cancer treatment. 72 YO. External Radiation with hormones. Prior to diagnosis, my libido was good. Being...

This regards my experiences pre and post prostate cancer treatment. 72 YO. Exter...

steinmother

•6 years ago

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IMAGING TO STAGE

Finished 44 treatments over 78 days. Hormone Lupron and Casodex. Gleason 6/7 with lymph node found on 3 tesla MRI. CT guided biopsy of node positive. So Stage...

Finished 44 treatments over 78 days. Hormone Lupron and Casodex. Gleason 6/7 wit...

steinmother

•6 years ago

6 Replies

Should you have hormone therapy along with radiation?

A useful video about this was cited in a Urology Practice Update email. The video is here: http://www.practiceupdate.com/expertopinion/2876/3/3 The radiation...

A useful video about this was cited in a Urology Practice Update email. The vid...

AlanMeyer

Moderator•6 years ago

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All posts for December 2017

High PSA Apparently Due To Infection?

Falling PSA

ORCHIECTOMY OR ADT??

Sometimes the medicine works

Help Needed! Space Oar Gel option

Lupron, A Fib, What to Do?

ED, LIBIDO, PUMPS and PILLS

IMAGING TO STAGE

Should you have hormone therapy along with radiation?

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