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Hi Peter,

I am the nefarious "Sy" mentioned in some of these posts.

Several months ago I started posting and got lots of good advice.

Regarding "support" that seems to show itself on occassion but there is
also what seems to be a group of very myopic people "here" who become
very nasty and belicose if your personal treatment decision (and this
very confusing field really reduces to a statistical crap shoot
tempered with very personal decision making on the risk/reward ratio of
various treatment types and their attendant seqellae) doesn't quite
square with what they believe is "best for you".  They will say
something like "Best of luck on your treatment decision" while in the
next breath telling you how ill-advised your decision is and to be
prepared for the long and painful suffering you will endure.  Very
disingenuous.

Keep in mind that people have a physical and psychological investment
in the path they or their loved one has taken and are understandably
heavily invested in that particular path.  That and the more delusional
members who believe they are Nobel Laureates in Medicine and wish to
"treat you" by email can have very obnoxious and downright intolerable
opinions on how you plan to proceed with your personal treatment
decision forgetting (if they ever even knew) how much of this is a very
personal decision making process.  In fact probably THE most personal
decision making process one will ever have to make.

There is a lot of very valuable information to be gleaned and several
very kind and level headed people here but be aware of those
volunteering to come to your house to give you a free DRE because I am
really convinced some will.  

Anyway, that's how I see it.  There are also other very good mailing
lists which I believe has at least the equivalent amount of sensible
information with a lot less posturing.

Sy