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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Prostate Cancer / February 2008Proton Beam
New Cyclotron arrived in Philly today; Proton beam therapy is supposed to be up and running here Summer, 2009. http://cbs3.com/health/Cyclotron.Proton.Accelerator.2.640303.html Anyone have any comment about the Dattoli Center's extreme negativity toward proton beam therapy? Besides their obvious financial interests in being against it, is there any merit to their arguments? Any studies comparing seeding versus proton therapy? http://www.dattoli.com/technology/proton.cfm > New Cyclotron arrived in Philly today; Proton beam therapy is > supposed to [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > being against it, is there any merit to their arguments? Any studies > comparing seeding versus proton therapy? I have no idea why. But, I can tell you that there have only four men who have come across this newsgroup who have tried Proton Therapy. I've listed them. Each has reported no relapse, but I haven't heard from any but Keith in a long time. cwarman89134@gmail.com CW89134 wborglum@sbcglobaldot.net Desert Denizen keith340@webtv.net Keith Lundy jeffbalfoort@yahoo.com surfdog > I have no idea why. But, I can tell you that there have only four men who > have come across this newsgroup who have tried Proton Therapy. I've listed > them. Each has reported no relapse, but I haven't heard from any but Keith > in a long time. > > cwarman89...@gmail.com CW89134 Hi Steve and all: I've been reading posts here regularly but haven't had much to say other than that Paul is doing well. His proton treatment at Loma Linda ended on 5/31/07. His first post-treatment PSA (on 9/26/07, four months post treatment) was 1.2, down from a high of 3.5 in January 2007. He goes for another PSA test at the end of March. Insofar as side effects, the only side effects he experienced were urinary urgency and a slight burning during treatment. These ended within a month or so after treatment. I read the Dattoli website article but since I'm not a medical physicist (or anything else medical, for that matter) I really can't comment on its validity. There is a proton center in Florida (in Jacksonville, see link below) so I wouldn't necessarily rule out the financial competition issue. http://www.floridaproton.org/index.html Carol > I have no idea why. But, I can tell you that there have only four men who > have come across this newsgroup who have tried Proton Therapy. I've listed > them. Each has reported no relapse, but I haven't heard from any but Keith > in a long time. > > cwarman89...@gmail.com CW89134 I'm sorry, Carol. We did hear from you after his September PSA. I was confusing you with Paul Williams whose handle used to be CPWsomething. I'm glad your Paul is doing well.  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 my latest psa from january 08 was 0.59 down from 0.64 six months ago......my 40 "proton only" treatments ended in may 03......my psa at diagnoses was 6.4 but habd been as high as 9.1...... -- Message posted using http://www.talkaboutsupport.com/group/alt.support.cancer.prostate/ More information at http://www.talkaboutsupport.com/faq.html > my latest psa from january 08 was 0.59 down from 0.64 six months > ago......my 40 "proton only" treatments ended in may 03......my psa at > diagnoses was 6.4 but habd been as high as 9.1...... Good to hear from you, Keith. Better to hear your numbers. Congratulations. 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, <0.1 2/12/08 Non Illegitimi Carborundum my latest psa from january 08 was 0.59 down from 0.64 six months ago......my 40 "proton only" treatments ended in may 03......my psa at diagnoses was 6.4 but had been as high as 9.1...... -- Message posted using http://www.talkaboutsupport.com/group/alt.support.cancer.prostate/ More information at http://www.talkaboutsupport.com/faq.html |
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