3D Conformal Radiation Therapy

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Jerry Matson - 29 Jan 2004 06:57 GMT

Started my radiation therapy at Kaiser Sunset in L.A. on Monday. Final
session will be on March 16, so this involves 41 visits. Nice facility,
everyone very professional, radiation rooms very comfortable, doctor
describes treatments for a patient with my numbers "90% curative". Can't
ask for much more than that. Now I await side effects if any.

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Steve Kramer - 29 Jan 2004 10:45 GMT

Don't wait for them. Walk a lot. Drink lots of water. Sleep another out
every night. My 35 treatments were a breeze.

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Prostate Cancer Survivor (so far), not a doctor
PSA 16 10/17/2000 @ 46
Biopsy 11/01/2000 G7 (3+4), T2c
RRP 12/15/2000
PSA .1 .1 .1 .3 .4 .8
EBRT 05-07/2002 @ 47
PSA .3 .2 .2 .2 .3
Erection 05/12/2003 @ 48
HTbegins 07/21/2003 @ 48
PSA .1
Lupron 7/03, 8/03, 12/03

> Started my radiation therapy at Kaiser Sunset in L.A. on Monday. Final
> session will be on March 16, so this involves 41 visits. Nice facility,
> everyone very professional, radiation rooms very comfortable, doctor
> describes treatments for a patient with my numbers "90% curative". Can't
> ask for much more than that. Now I await side effects if any.

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cds - 12 Feb 2004 12:59 GMT

After completing 42 IMRTs in January, now have an ichy butt from somewhat
frequent BMs.
Also have short and almost dry orgasms that are slower to come.
--CDS in TX

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Doug Taylor - 12 Feb 2004 14:18 GMT

>After completing 42 IMRTs in January, now have an ichy butt from somewhat
>frequent BMs.
>Also have short and almost dry orgasms that are slower to come.

My experience is the same, one year post treatment. On the bright
side, zero incontinence and very little ED.
--dt

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olfart - 12 Feb 2004 14:28 GMT

> After completing 42 IMRTs in January, now have an ichy butt from somewhat
> frequent BMs.
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> > describes treatments for a patient with my numbers "90% curative". Can't
> > ask for much more than that. Now I await side effects if any.

Congrats to both of you-sounds like you both did well. I start my IMRT's
next month (25 sessions) and was wondering what to expext. My Uro started me
on Flowmax this week. Since my prostate is slightly swollen he says that the
radiation would probably cause more swelling so the Flowmax now should keep
the problem to a minimum.
Keep doin' what you're doin' guys and good luck.
Age - 68
8/12/02 - PSA 3.7
10/13/03 - PSA 4.69
11/11/03 - PSA 4.8
11/18/03 - Biopsy - 10 cores
one core-25% of core-Gleason 4+4=8
all other cores benign tissue
12/10/03 - Consult - Oncologist
12/16/03 - Consult - Radiation Oncologist
Treatment Plan -
HT - started 12/17/03 - Eulixen & Lupron
Radiation - IMRT to begin 3/14/04 - for 5 weeks
Theraseed implant after Radiation completed

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Alan Meyer - 13 Feb 2004 17:31 GMT

> ...
> Congrats to both of you-sounds like you both did well. I start my IMRT's
> next month (25 sessions) and was wondering what to expext. My Uro started me
> on Flowmax this week. Since my prostate is slightly swollen he says that the
> radiation would probably cause more swelling so the Flowmax now should keep
> the problem to a minimum.

I had some prostatitis (swelling and pain in the prostate) prior to
radiation and HDR brachytherapy. It got a little worse during the
treatment but now, 3 weeks after the end of treatment, it has
calmed down. It may even be a little better than it was before
treatment.

The Flowmax is useful. If you haven't experienced it, it's
hard to imagine what it's like to have a burstingly full bladder
and still be unable to urinate. Flowmax alleviated that.

About 10 days after the last radiation treatment I was able
to cut down to one 4 mg Flowmax/day. At 20 days I went
down to one pill every other day. Hopefully, in another couple
of weeks I'll get off it altogether.

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Doug Taylor - 13 Feb 2004 20:52 GMT

>The Flowmax is useful. If you haven't experienced it, it's
>hard to imagine what it's like to have a burstingly full bladder
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>down to one pill every other day. Hopefully, in another couple
>of weeks I'll get off it altogether.

I also was on flomax after about 3 weeks into my treatment (which
ended last year). I remember my Dr. telling me that about 1 in 4
patients experienced the difficulty in urinating symptoms requiring
the medication. My symptoms pretty much vanished a month after
treatment concluded. Now almost a year later no problems voiding, and
sleeping 7 - 8 hours each night without having to get up and pee.
--dt

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Alan Meyer - 13 Feb 2004 21:51 GMT

> >The Flowmax is useful. If you haven't experienced it, it's
> >hard to imagine what it's like to have a burstingly full bladder
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> sleeping 7 - 8 hours each night without having to get up and pee.
> --dt

I'm down to 2-3 trips to the toilet each night. But that's down
from 7 times a night for the first few nights. Going a whole night
without getting up sounds awfully nice. I'm encouraged to hear that
you reached that point after only a month.

Alan

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Steve Kramer - 12 Feb 2004 22:11 GMT

The butt gets better.

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