profits go to st judes cancer association...
http://www.reksworld.com

i was watching the first news item of the show and was really surprised
to find out that they are calling back men and women who have served
their country.
these are people who served their active duty and their reserve time and

My father has been a surivior of cancer for close to 20 years.  My wife
and I have decided that it was time for us to repay the gift that
modern medicine has given us, many more years with dad.
Wendy and I have both been picked to be on the Dana-Farber Marathon

Curt enrolled in a clinical trial that uses Medi-522 weekly (a monoclonal
antibody directed against the human alpha v beta 3 integrin) in combo with
taxotere and prednisone with zometa every 3 weeks.
anyone heard of this?

Has anyone had experience with ProstRcision? Visited the website:
http://rcog.csihealthmedia.com/home.htm
I'm not second guessing my choice to go with robotic surgery, but what the
doctor explains in the Q&A really makes you think, or get paranoid, about

I find this newsgroup very, very useful.
We are facing issues of survival, incontinence, impotence. And to have
a forum where you can discuss these issues openly and without any
mental restraints you may impose on yourself when in contact with

Congratulations Steve Kramer for being Top (all time) Poster of the NG.
I went went surfing on google's (Google Groups) alt.support.cancer.prostate
site and I see they have changed their format somewhat from the last time I
was at the website.

Excuse my ignorance, but is fatigue common amoung the members of this
group? I've been a low energy person for several years. My PSA went up
quickly after using androgel for impotence (thus leading to a Gleason
of 3+4 and surgery). I'm assuming that at least some of us had or

I just read where 71 year old singer James Brown has been diagnosed
with PCa and will undergo surgery next week on December 15th.

   Mr. Foley was removed on Thursday, August 21, 2003, and from day
one I did not leak while lying down.  For the first couple weeks I was
pretty much totally incontinent, but in all these months I never
leaked in bed.  I sleep on my back or sides.  Not sure what it would

Been playing in the Google newsgroup site.  Found that, of those people
still here, Henry EV was the first to post in May 1996.  Also from May 10,
1996 is an interesting tid bit:
Mediconsult is proud to announce that its Prostate Cancer Support

Take a look at this site:
(it is clean and kinda cute...)
http://web.icq.com/shockwave/0,,4845,00.swf
Merry Christmas All,

   I have saved a compilation of all persons talking to me and giving me
advice since 1999.
I have some of our long lost old friends, and some of the later people
afflicted.

Antidepressant treats hot flashes in men taking hormonal therapy for
prostate cancer, Mayo study finds
Paxil (paroxetine) diminishes hot flashes in men who are receiving
hormone therapy for prostate cancer, Mayo Clinic researchers report.

Those of us who have been here for a while got used to seeing this post
every few weeks.
I don't want to see it scroll off the archives and be lost forever, so I
took it on myself to re-post it periodically.