Marshall Edwards prostate cancer drug gains fast track status
According to Marshall Edwards, the FDA has granted the investigational
anticancer drug, phenoxodiol, fast track status for its intended use in
patients with hormone-refractory prostate cancer.

All my post-op PSAs were analyzed using Electrochemiluminescence in
the same lab.  Now it was suggested to me that I may want to confirm
my last reading using an "ultrasensitive" test.  What could it be?
How widely is it available?

i went with the wife to the doctor.   i've known him for many years and
i will ask for a free sample of the ED meds, but he has always given me
viagra and said not the take the other ED meds.  
this time, he made a comment similar to that, so i pinned him down and

Permit me a little celebration...my third post-RRP PSA test results are in.
Third straight <0.1 reading!

Just wondering if we are free to discuss any medical legal issues
surrounding prostate cancer?
Paul

Is this newsgroup negatively skewed? My Partin tables show that I have
a 98% chance of beating Pca based on my stats of negative margins,
Gleason 6, PSA of 6.6 before RRP, etc. But reading the posts on the
newsgroups, I seem to read mostly about people who end up with rising

Casodex (bicalutamide) 150mg, cost effective treatment for the
management of locally advanced prostate cancer
18 Jan 2005
New data published in the European Journal of Hospital Pharmacy -

Sorry all - I've de-lurked again!
On my 3 mthly evaluation today at SCGH, I met the Dr. who would be
doing my HDR Temporary Brachytherapy.
He's just new at SCGH, but has been specialising in that in Canada for

Memphis-based biotech GTx has initiated a pivotal phase III clinical
trial for Acapodene for the prevention of prostate cancer in high risk
men.
27 Jan 2005, 16:34 GMT - The pivotal phase III trial is a double blind,

A month after radical prostate surgery my psa test was 1.0. A month later it
is .7. doctor said all of prostate was removed and in one piece. all tests
surrounding surgical area were negative, but prostate was greatly enlarged.
Gleason was level 5 and small amount of cancer cells ...

Pfizer seems to have harvested e-mail addresses from this group.  Or am
I the only one who got this one?
I don't know why they're talking to me, I've never had anything to say
about ED.

just came back from my urologist today.  My first PSA after radical
prostetectomy that was performed on 11/10/04 is......    .03.  Feel
relieved.  Didn't expect it to be above .1, but you never know.  Hope it
just stays this low for a long, long time.  My uro wants to have ...

I had a Prostatectomy in 1999. For the past 3 years my general practioner
has been giving me a PSA test twice a year at my request. My PSA has been at
or below 0.03 since my operation. How often should the PSA be taken after
five years? Any recommendations from your URO?

i was watching ripley's "believe it or not".  we've all seen ultra-sound
pictures of unborn babies, but they have a 3rd beam that they can use
and it produces a 3-D imaging and they showed the face of a 27 week old
baby.  it was really interesting because it looked just like a ...

My father has recently been diagnosed with prostate cancer. I am a bit
shaken. He is 73 yrs old and has a PSA of 11, and a Gleason score of 7. The
doctor said that he cannot undertake brachytherapy as he is too old. Could
anyone recommend alternate treatments? He is scared to ...