Dear All,

[I borrowed the following from theYahoo PC group.  The woman who
posted it is Kathy Meade, and so I want to give her proper credit.
She is a PC widow who is a godsend to the PC community.  She posts a
lot of great articles and gives good advice.  Thank you, Kathy.]

"There have been no studies that show that hormones do cure men and
the medical community considers it palliative care but I had one
doctor say that there are some men who live man years with hormone
therapy and in fact maybe taken off hormones and do not have a
recurrence. It is not true with most men though unfortunately".

As Kathy says, in unusual cases, a very few men do not have a
recurrence after stopping ADT (Androgen Deprivation Therapy).

One such man is Doug Adam whose story is here http://www.yananow. net/
Mentors/ DougA.htm.

*Although he was a young man when he was diagnosed in 1991, he had a
Gleason Score of 5+5=10- as high as you can get. He had surgery,
radiotherapy and hormone therapy.

In his latest update of his story he says:

**"After stopping all treatment in 19th August 1998, my PSA is still
less than 0.1 ng/ml and I am in good nick apart from increasingly
creaky bones! I was diagnosed in 1991 so after 15 years, that is a
great result andI pray it continues!"**

There are no guarantees in this life - certainly not as far as
prostate cancer is concerned, but stories like Doug's show that there
is often life after diagnosis. I am sure we all hope that your
father's results will be as good as Doug's.

Best to you all.

Leah