Last weekend I was relating my PCa experience to my youngest son who
is a 30-year old gay man living in New York City.  He told me quite
seriously that prostate cancer is rare among gay men because of the
regular and vigorous prostate "massage" they get when engaging in

The following was posted with Luis' permission to another PCa support
group.... over on Yahoo.  I just wanted to share it here.
MikeH
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Research has demonstrated that cancer is a largely avoidable disease. It
is estimated that more than two-thirds of cancer may be prevented
through lifestyle modification (1). Nearly one-third of these cancer
occurrences can be attributed to diet alone, secondary to our American

Hello friends,
I got real tired of waiting for my internist and/or urologist to give
me a referral to (or even talk to me about) the radiation oncologist
in San Antonio suggested by gourd_dancer, Dr. Prestidige, who did his

Last Tuesday, we were at the hospital at 6:00 a.m for pre-op.  Right
before I was taken back to surgery, my wife (Lori) asked the resident
physician how long the surgery would be, he patted me on the belly and
said..."he has a pretty good gut there, and could take 4 hours."  Well,

Dear Friends,
Pls spare your precious time for me & try to  reply/suggest/advice for
my query.
Jan'03 we came to know that my Father(65) was affected by

I got a CAT scan Wednesday, and while the techs were explaining some
of the details of the procedure I, being an engineer, was
rubber-necking at the hardware --- so tell me, learned colleagues:
what was the purpose of the 12 gallons of lemony-Pledge-flavored

I stopped going to the Cancer Centre every day with Ron for his
radiation treatments......not entirely sure why (G).  Most of the people
were upbeat and interesting.  But the odd one got to me and I tried to
remain detached.

This message was in my Women Against Prostate Cancer Yahoo group.  I
am reposting it here to help get the word out in case any baseball
fans in the San Francisco or Atlanta area would be interested in
helping out.

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About 18 months ago my partner had brachytherapy done for his prostate
cancer (he was only 47 at the time and there seem to be younger men
being diagnosed all the time).  My question is: Once brachytherapy has
been carried out, is infertility a done deal or is there still a

This afternoon I decided it was finally take the bull by the horns and
look for my copy of my post-op biopsy report amongst all of the stuff
I still need to sort through all the stuff moved after the roommates
moved in.

My husband is 6 weeks post-op. The pads are causing chafing on the end
of the penis esp. toward the end of the day and esp. when we try to do
our ballroom dance practicing. The irritation subsides when he lays
down and is still. We'd sure like some ideas on ways to mitigate this

<Snip>
Laugh off the stress. You know what's more important and what really
counts after going this PCa process.
<Snip>

hi folks - this will be interesting to see just how much censorship you
will see.  let's just call it an experiment.
here are the facts.
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