My post 2 days ago requesting information about AlphaDry was never posted.
Is there a problem with the NG? If not, this is a legitimate request for
information about the product by an NG member (me). My RRP was August 2005.
I have no relationship whatsoever with the company except as a prospective
customer and user of their product.

Michael Kiely

Dominic,

Great sign. From .95 to .2  in a month.

Lets hope it all was in the positive margin region and local.

Your headed in the right direction to  <0.1

Looks like you will be there the next test in 3 months.

And may it stay there for ever.

Dave

That sounds like an excellent start.

As I understand it, radiation does not kill the cancer cells immediately.
What it does is damage their DNA enough so that they have trouble
reproducing themselves, i.e., spreading.  Eventually, the cancerous
cells attempt to divide, produce defective daughter cells due to the
damaged DNA, and they die.

I have read that with brachytherapy the process can take up to 3 years
to reach nadir, but I don't know what the numbers are for external beam
radiation.

It is possible that a cancer fighting diet will help tip the scales a bit
against the struggling cancer cells.  The data supporting this theory
is weak, but there is some data suggesting that a diet rich in lycopene,
vitamin D and E, selenium, EGCG, and maybe some other things (check
the newsgroup or the web for suggestions) may help fight prostate
cancer.

I hesitate to recommend this to anyone because the data supporting
it is not of high quality.  But for myself I figure that a glass of tomato
juice (lycopene) and some green tea extract should be very safe so
I think, why not?  As long as we don't take things known to be unsafe
like megadoses of vitamin D and E, I figure it's worth doing.  Besides,
it makes me feel like I'm doing something to fight the cancer and not
just passively waiting for my next PSA test.

Best of luck.

   Alan