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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Prostate Cancer / November 2007<0.01 and Salvage Radiation
Latest PSA Results <0.01 Once again thanks for everyones support, prayers, understanding throughout this disease. I still check in daily. Never give up, Never lose hope. Dave P HISTORY Age 46: PSA 4.8 Biopsy 2 of 16 cores positive <5% Gleason 3+3=6 RP 10.15.02 Path Report = Positive Margin Right Apex 4mm, no lymph node invasion, no seminal vesicle involvement Cancer found throughout the prostate Gleason 3+4=7 12.04.02 PSA Test <0.1 02.24.03. PSA Test 0.3 03.01.03 PSA Test confirming 0.3 03.24.03 Bone Scan, MRI = Negative 03.31.03 Started Salvage Radiation 68.400 gy - 40 Treatments - IMRT 7 Angles 05.23.03 Ended Salvage Radiation 07.03 PSA = 0.04 10.03 PSA = <0.01 04.04 PSA = <0.01 10.04 PSA = <0.01 05.05 PSA = <0.01 11.05 PSA = <0.01 05.06 PSA = <0.01 11.06 PSA = 0.01 change 05.07 PSA = <0.01 11.07 PSA = <0.01 On Nov 15, 5:28 pm, h...@trsusa.com wrote: > Latest PSA Results <0.01 > [quoted text clipped - 41 lines] > 05.07 PSA = <0.01 > 11.07 PSA = <0.01 Good for you! And thanks for reporting the encouraging news. Husb finished SRT end of Aug., and we are supposed to get the results end of December. Doc makes you bite your nails for 4 mos. Leah > RP 10.15.02 > 03.31.03 Started Salvage Radiation 68.400 gy - 40 Treatments - IMRT > 07.03 PSA = 0.04 > 10.03 PSA = <0.01 [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > 05.07 PSA = <0.01 > 11.07 PSA = <0.01 Congratulations, Dave. You snuck right past the bastard and into the Five Year Club!!  SignaturePSA 16 10/17/2000 @ 46 Biopsy 11/01/2000 G7 (3+4), T2c RRP 12/15/2000 G7 (3+4), T3cN0M0 Neg margins PSA <.1 <.1 <.1 .27 .37 .75 PSAD 0.19 years EBRT 05-07/2002 @ 47 PSA .34 .22 .15 .21 .32 PSAD .056 years Lupron 07/03 (1 mo) 8/03 and every 4 months there after PSA .07 .05 .06 .09 .08 .132 .145 PSAD 1.4 years Casodex added daily 07/06 PSA <0.04, <0.05, <0.04, <0.04 10/11/07 Non Illegitimi Carborundum On Nov 15, 5:28 pm, h...@trsusa.com wrote: > Latest PSA Results <0.01 > ... When surgery fails as a primary treatment fails, with the current state of the art, you get exactly one more shot at curative treatment - salvage radiation. It's very encouraging to hear from someone for whom that one shot appears to have hit the mark. Congratulations. Alan > On Nov 15, 5:28 pm, h...@trsusa.com wrote: > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Alan WOW.... What a great set of stats!! Indeed very encouraging. On Nov 15, 5:28 pm, h...@trsusa.com wrote: > Latest PSA Results <0.01 Dave. Great news! I've just had a recurrence 5 years post-RP and seeing the radiation oncologist on Monday to discuss SRT, so this is music to my ears. You made my day, buddy! All the best.... Doug talkingaboutcancer.com > Latest PSA Results <0.01 Well I'll add my congrats' ...... I also check in daily to follow the ongoing personal dramas and public discussions. I had my RP in late 2003 ( low grade, organ confined ) and have a PSA bouncing between .1 an .2 for the last year or so. My uro finally said enough is enough. Had the standard CT scan and the new ProstaScint scan re: http://diagnosis.prostate-help.org/pcprosc.htm for more info. Both came back negative. So I start my IMRT this coming Monday for 40 visits. I can only pray that my outcome is as good as yours. Lookout Buck Rodgers ,here I come! JimBob "Master of the Sr. Moment" Thanks again to everyone. I am hoping that a cure and/or better drug is soon on its way to destroy PCa for good. Dave P "JimBob" <JimBob@invalid.comcast.net> wrote in message > So I start my IMRT this coming Monday for 40 visits. I can only pray that > my outcome is as good as yours. Lookout Buck Rodgers ,here I come! Hey, JimBob! Good to see you back... even if it's with slightly tainted news. Your last report, I think, was March 2005 and your PSA was 0.2. If it's been bouncing lower than that for 2½ years, I wouldn't be at all surprised to see that IMRT delivers a knock-out punch. Keep in touch! SignaturePSA 16 10/17/2000 @ 46 Biopsy 11/01/2000 G7 (3+4), T2c RRP 12/15/2000 G7 (3+4), T3cN0M0 Neg margins PSA <.1 <.1 <.1 .27 .37 .75 PSAD 0.19 years EBRT 05-07/2002 @ 47 PSA .34 .22 .15 .21 .32 PSAD .056 years Lupron 07/03 (1 mo) 8/03 and every 4 months there after PSA .07 .05 .06 .09 .08 .132 .145 PSAD 1.4 years Casodex added daily 07/06 PSA <0.04, <0.05, <0.04, <0.04 10/11/07 Non Illegitimi Carborundum > "JimBob" <JimBob@invalid.comcast.net> wrote in message > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Keep in touch! Ahhhhh , so nice to be remembered . I only wish the other NG's I participate in could be as caring , understanding and non-confrontational ( usually ) as "ascp" . This little virtual round table is so special ..... much thanks to everyone involved ! JimBob "Master of the Sr. Moment" My best to you JimBob. Hang tough. The guys here are the best. If you need anything...just write. Ron B. Chicago > I had my RP in late > 2003 ( low grade, organ confined ) and have a PSA bouncing between .1 an [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > So I start my IMRT this coming Monday for 40 visits. My onc told me just yesterday that pursuant to the NCCN symposium ( http://www.nccn.org/professionals/meetings/eventinfo.asp?EventID=88 ) he attended last week he's preparing to publish a paper explaining two distinctly different protocols for SRT in pts with PSAs around 0.5 after RP "failure". For low-risk cases -- Gleason 6, no SVI, negative margins -- pts often sit at 0.5 for many years with no need or recommendation for further treatment. For high risk cases -- Gleason 8 *or* SVI *or* positive margins -- pts very often progress to full recurrence and should be treated with SRT at about 0.6. Nowhere is a "piddling little PSA" of 0.2 mentioned in that. I.P. ----- snip ---- > Nowhere is a "piddling little PSA" of 0.2 mentioned in that. > > I.P. Well that just shows you how much attention I was paying when I wrote my OP. Frankly I am a little stressed with this whole thing , so what hits the virtual paper is not the same as what was in my "virtual" brain. As I originally wrote "I had a a PSA bouncing between .1 an .2 for the last year or so" . What I failed to remember to add ( happening a lot lately ) was that the last bounce in Oct. was to .6 .... duh !!! Yeah , one could ask how I could forget THAT ! Well , about 11 years ago ( I was 50 at the time ) I did one of those stupit' people tricks and attempted to see how many freshly painted steps I could jump over in an attempt to get back down into my basement ( I was never known for patience , the lack of same always displaced smarts ). Well, it was 2 steps cause when I hit the edge of of the third painted step I shot off like a rocket and the rest is history as they say. I ended up with a bad neck and some brain stem damage that resulted in chronic tinnitus and a nasty sleep disorder. So the purpose of all this blithering is just to explain how one normally sane person after not sleeping much for a couple days just might forget to mention a minor detail like the tripling of his PSA over a 3 month period. Well , I feel better now ..... this should also explain my "sig" ! "Why are my pants on inside out" ? JimBob "Master of the Sr. Moment" Sorry for the end result, but your post did make me laugh..... I did the same sort of thing as a kid and busted my collar bone. You see, I thought I was Peter Pan and could *fly* down 2 flights of stairs to the basement. NOT!! Bounced off the door and broke a bone, but not the glass bottles I was holding in each hand. I was about 4 I think. NOT 50!! LOL!! Cheers.....Mistress of the Sr. Moment these days. > Yeah , one could ask how I could forget THAT ! Well , about 11 years > > ago ( I was 50 at the time ) I did one of those stupit' people [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > JimBob > "Master of the Sr. Moment" > Sorry for the end result, but your post did make me laugh..... Good , I still try to have a sense of humor about it all. > I did the same sort of thing as a kid and busted my collar bone. You > see, I thought I was Peter Pan and could *fly* down 2 flights of stairs > to the basement. NOT!! Worst part for me was I remember standing there thinking that I really shouldn't try it. But my inner child insisted and ........ *^(*^^&$%# > Bounced off the door and broke a bone, but not the glass bottles I was > holding in each hand. I was about 4 I think. NOT 50!! LOL!! If I would of bounced I think I would have been better off ! > Cheers.....Mistress of the Sr. Moment these days. JimBob "Master of the Sr. Moment" > Well, it was 2 steps cause when I hit the edge of of the third painted > step I shot off like a rocket and the rest is history as they say. I [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > JimBob > "Master of the Sr. Moment" That sounds more like a teenager moment, not a Sr. Moment, except that a teenager would have pulled it off. Thanks for reaffirming my conscious decisions not to attempt stuff quit like that any more. Close, but not that bad. Let me guess ... you were known as James or Robert BEFORE this happened. '-) I.P. > That sounds more like a teenager moment, not a Sr. Moment, except that a > teenager would have pulled it off. Thanks for reaffirming my conscious [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > I.P. Half right I.P. , actually it is James and I've always been called Jim. In my very early years I was raised riding horses and chasing cows in the Southwest then as a teenager moved to the Northeast . In later years some of my friends started calling me JB. One day a person asked what JB stood for and a friend who new about my past replied JimBob and it just sorta stuck. I only use it as a username these days however. Interestingly enough though my Father's name was Robert ! JimBob "Master of the Sr. Moment" > In later years some of my friends started calling me JB. Beats the hell out of BJ. I.P. Great News, Dave! Best wishes for many more results of <0.01 !!! Burney >Latest PSA Results <0.01 > [quoted text clipped - 41 lines] >05.07 PSA = <0.01 >11.07 PSA = <0.01 >Latest PSA Results <0.01 > [quoted text clipped - 41 lines] >05.07 PSA = <0.01 >11.07 PSA = <0.01 Congrats on your numbers Dave, I'll aspire to string up some of those <0.01s myself :) SignaturePSA @ 45 yrs. = 4.7 02/06/2007 Biopsy 03/16/2007 G7(3+4),T1c RLRP 06/12/2007 G7(3+4),T2cN0M0 Neg margins PSA 7/16/2007 = <0.1 PSA 9/12/2007 = <0.1 |
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