"JohnHace" <johnh@amcoex.com> wrote in message

"Snuffy" Myers has lots of fans.  He himself has PCa.  He is big on
nutrition and supplements....along with othodox treatments.   I subscribed
to his newsletter for a year. My impression was that his recommendations had
sound experimental and trial bases.  In other words, he is not a quack. And
just as any MD charges for his services, so does Myers.  I stopped
subscribing because there was not enough in his newsletters that had
personal relevance to me, and I didnt therefore want to wade through the
sometimes rather technical articles. Hope this helps.

I think each of us has come up with some things that might help and
probably won't hurt.   As long as you don't overdose on any supplement,
it is probably harmless.

I take 400 units of Vitamin E (mixed types) and a 200 microgram Selenium
supplement.  There is currently a double blind clinical trial underway
to see if this regimen reduces the incidence of prostate cancer, which
means someone has convinced a funding agency that it might work.  Even
if it does, it wouldn't necessarily follow that it reduces the
likelihood of recurrence if you have been treated for prostate cancer.

I also try to eat cooked tomato products and I drink lots of grapefruit
juice.   Otherwise I don't bother.

As Claude told you, Myers is not a quack.   But at present, I think all
these guys are guessing.   There haven't been ay definitive studies
proving things one way or another.

And

And

I don't know, maybe I'm dense or whatever. Is he not contradicting
himself? If Dr. Myers believes that if most men are incurable that are
diagnosed today, then why bother at all?

Should pts with GS scores greater than >6 just go on HT without first
trying either RP or RT since he indicates that they are incurable in the
first place? (I do understand the Partin Tables here in his case).

Dr. Myers has a GS of 7, clinically I may add, and it could be even
higher at pathology. But since he chose RT, he will not know for sure to
which he does admit to. But if he had "let the cancer progress", then he
goes on to state, "what can be successfully treated with surgery or
radiation therapy" may be lost.

I'm having a tough time deciphering to just what he is saying. I'm under
the assumption that Pca that is found today in most of men are indeed
curable due to earlier detection and better treatments.

B.A.

Good news, and good luck in September.

                          ( editted)

Do those 2 sites contain more up-to-date/better information than.....

   American Cancer Society
   American College of Radiation Oncology
   Cancer Care Coalition  www.cancercarecoalition.org
   Cancer Care      www.cancercare.org
   Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
   Male Care       www.malecare.com
   National Cancer Institute    www.cancer.gov
   National Institute of Health (NIH)
   Prostate Cancer Foundation www.prostatefoundation.org
   Seek Well    www.seekwellness.com/prostate
   Urology Health Org

....without charging a fee or trying to sell you something?

Good news, and good luck in September.

                          ( editted)

Do those 2 sites contain more up-to-date/better information than.....

   American Cancer Society
   American College of Radiation Oncology
   Cancer Care Coalition  www.cancercarecoalition.org
   Cancer Care      www.cancercare.org
   Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
   Male Care       www.malecare.com
   National Cancer Institute    www.cancer.gov
   National Institute of Health (NIH)
   Prostate Cancer Foundation www.prostatefoundation.org
   Seek Well    www.seekwellness.com/prostate
   Urology Health Org

....without charging a fee or trying to sell you something?

Don't know what your exercise habits are, but I started walking and got up
to 2 miles in 34 minutes every day before the operation.  Built on that
after the operation.

 Go out and eat a big juicy steak John.  In my opinion there's no amount of
supplements, vitamins, voodoo, exercise, or mo-jo that will make one bit of
difference. You have PCa. Get your surgery,  if its contained and a low
Gleason score, there's a good chance you'll get hit by a truck or die of a
heart attack before the PCa gets you. Again in my opinion, assuming you're
in your 50's like most of us, it's time to live it up and have some fun for
the next 30 or so years. That includes eating well. Eating all the things
you've been depriving yourself of. Even if there was any proof that diet
would extend my life another few months, I wouldn't give up eating what I
want for that brief extension, but hey that's just me.