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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Prostate Cancer / August 2004The Proton Guy Is BACK
Hello everyone!!!! After a few months of delays and politics between my new home tract builder, County, and City, I moved into my house August 7th without phone service. Tent trailer life got old very quick. I am now up and running an of course on line. The 10 year Proton results are in and looking very promising. I have not had a chance to do a review. It seems that the group here continues to grow along with the junk mail. I will be only lurking for a while until I get other new home matters completed. Keith Lundy/So. California 40 Proton Beam Radiation Treatments Loma Linda Univ.Med Ctr..3/03-5/03 hi keith - i tried to send you a couple of emails about 4 or 5 months ago, but it bounced stating that your mailbox was full. i tried again later and got the same response. i thought that you might be using the mailbox as a catch box for the junk mail, but haven't seen you post for awhile. glad everything is still going well and you are finally able to move in. ~ curtis knowledge is power - growing old is mandatory - growing wise is optional "Many more men die with prostate cancer than of it. Growing old is invariably fatal. Prostate cancer is only sometimes so." thanks palmer, i had over 600 e-mails in my box, mostly junk...i will have my eighteenth month psa test in november and of course will continue to update the group....proton treatment has been getting a lot of national news coverage since the release of the 10 year study,,,,,for early stage pc and my situation, it was the best treatment choice. Keith Lundy/So. California 40 Proton Beam Radiation Treatments Loma Linda Univ.Med Ctr..3/03-5/03 Keith, I was offline for an extended period and am interested in your psa results from pre-proton to the present, also side effects , if any. Thanks. John Glad to see you are back! And so nice to hear you are all moved in!! I know living in your new home is going to feel wonderful especially after the "camping". Bev > thanks palmer, i had over 600 e-mails in my box, mostly junk...i will > have my eighteenth month psa test in november and of course will [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > 40 Proton Beam Radiation Treatments > Loma Linda Univ.Med Ctr..3/03-5/03 > proton treatment has been getting a lot > of national news coverage since the release of the 10 year study,,,,,for [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > 40 Proton Beam Radiation Treatments > Loma Linda Univ.Med Ctr..3/03-5/03 Hi Keith...Your comment that proton treatment was the best treatment choice for early stage PCa caught my attention. Could you elaborate a bit and explain the basis for the comment? I've only seen the abstract of the Loma linda study (Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2004 Jun 1;59(2):348-52), but in it they claim a 10-year biochemical disease-free survival rate of 90% for men with initial PSA =< 4.0 ng/ml. In the Hopkins RRP study (J. Urol., Vol. 169, 517523, February 2003) a BDFS rate >= 97% is estimated at 10-years for low-risk men (T1c, PSA =< 4.0 ng/ml, GS<7). Do you know whether the LL study used the ASTRO defintion of failure or PSA > 0.2 ng/ml as the failure point? If they used the ASTRO defintion, then, from the work of Critz and Zincke, the LL result should be decremented by at least 5 more points to accurately compare it to the Hopkins results which use the PSA > 0.2 ng/ml defintion of failure...Best wishes and good health, Ron RON-what i meant was "proton treatment was the best choice for me in my early stage and my situation." Keith Lundy/So. California 40 Proton Beam Radiation Treatments Loma Linda Univ.Med Ctr..3/03-5/03 Keith, Sounds good. Glad your back and doing so well. Expect November will be well below 1.0. Will be rooting for you. John Its good to know that you are still around and in good shape Keith. Keep in touch. Fernando JOHN....my 1 year psa result was 1.1 as of may 2004....down from 6.4 in oct 2002 at time of diagnoses.. RON...the RESULTS state that "the overall biochemical disease-free survival rate was 73% and in 90% in patients with initial psa 4.0: it was 87% in patients with postteatment psa nadirs of 0.05..rates dropped with rises in initial and psa values. long-term survival outcomes were comparable with those for other modalities intended for cure.....CONCLUSION..conformal proton radiation therapy at the reported dose levels yielded disease-free survival rates comparable with other forms of local therapy and with minimal morbidity. dose-escalation strategies are being implemented to further improve long-term reults.".....international journal of radiation onclogy "blology" physics, vol 59, issue 2, 1 june 2004, pags 348-352. IT WORKS!!! Keith Lundy/So. California 40 Proton Beam Radiation Treatments Loma Linda Univ.Med Ctr..3/03-5/03 |
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