To each and all of you fine gentlemen and the" women who love you,"
A hearty thanks.
I had my surgery (RRP) bright and early this past Monday (3-8-04) lymph
nodes negative and both nerve bundles spared, out of bed Tuesday AM and Home

My radiation therapy (3D Conformal) ends Monday, March 22. I'll have had
41 treatments at Kaiser Sunset in L.A. So far I've had minimal side
effects (some urination frequency and a bit of pain) but medication has
pretty much alleviated that.

After a tough week, we are finally ready to get this done.  Phil has
to report to the hospital at 5:15am Monday for 7:30 am surgery.  It's
amazing how calm we both are today!  He's on clear liquids only from
now until after surgery and even joking about it.  Wish us luck. :)

Ok, it's not earth shattering but still creeping lower.
It was 0.17 in September it is now 0.15
Don't know if this is the nadir. But this is good. The nurse gave me the
number and said "this is very excellent". (Had to laugh - can you have a

Contrarian All Fours Meditation
This submission is about meditation and the immune system. Before having
a biopsy, which diagnosed my prostate as cancerous I looked into
meditation on the WWW for a therapeutic remedy. One site told me that

Tomorrow we have an appointment with the rad-onc who performed my husband's
brachytherapy. It's not exactly 2 years but rather 22 months since his
brachytherapy. I know he will have another PSA done. So I'm crossing my
fingers and toes that this will be as good or better than the ...

I have been diagnosed with prostate cancer.
PSA = 11
Gleason = 7 (4+3)
Bone scan is negative

Today, I'm 9 weeks + one day post RP.  I'm here to seek suggestions and/or
recommendations for some sort of pad to help absorb the slight leaks I'm
experiencing.
I'm approximately half way through my first package of "guards for men".  After

I don't even care if anyone answers this, but I need a place to rant a
little.  Surgery (lrp) is set for my Phil on this coming Monday.  This
is how the past 10 days have gone:  He came down with a very bad chest
cold, went to the doctor and got on antibiotics and decongestant.

Contrarian All Fours Meditation
This submission is about meditation and the immune system. Before having
a biopsy, which diagnosed my prostate as cancerous I looked into
meditation on the WWW for a therapeutic remedy. One site told me that

My 62-year-old cousin's PSA jumped up quite a bit and he just had a
biopsy which came back benign.  Does anyone have any thoughts as to
why the PSA might have been gone up like this?  His history over the
last 3-1/2 years is as follows:

I am being admitted Friday afternoon ready for my RP which is scheduled
for Saturday morning.
Thanks to all in this group for the advice, information, encouragement,
positive feedback and fellowship over the past couple of months since my

I'm 57 I've been reading the posts for a few weeks now. My PSA from
the annual physical  jumped from 1.4 to 3.58 in a year and my regular
doc referred me to a URO who did a DRE ( some enlargement, soft,
symetrical) and a new PSA. Back to 1.46. So for now, no biopsy and no

Has anyone in this NG heard of anyone w/ seminal vesicle involvement
or other high-risk pathology whose recurrent PCa was "cured" by
salvage RT? I am at that point and my uro says RT won't help and the
rad-onc says to have it (in his financial interest, of course). Walsh

is ther any news on PC-Spes