Hello all.  I have not posted anything in quite a while because I
honestly felt I had nothing to contribute that wasn't already being
said so I've been lurking instead.  It's now been two years since my
RRP amd one year since the salvage radiation (EBRT)while on Lupron.

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80 Years old, Gleason 9, no metastasis to the bone
My father was just diagnosed.
Suggested treatment is castration (doctor's recommendation) or other
hormone therapy.

Has anyone heard about the new early blood test for prostate screening.
It's a prostate specific antigen that screens for metastic prostate
cancer.  Apparently, it is pretty effective and can significantly
reduces risk.  Let me know if you know anything about it.  I'm curious.

By: The Methodist Hospital on Jul 18 2005 09:28:47    
For years, Dr. Brian Butler, radiation oncologist at The Methodist
Hospital in Houston, would be the first to tell you that video games are
a waste of time.

Hello again all
I've been offline for about a week due to my having HDRB (3 fractions
in 48 hrs). No glitches there.
Unfortunately my legacy watermelon sized BPH prostate TURPED 18 yrs

   Yesterday had the appointment with the urologist who specializes in male
and female incontinence.  I was told a lot yesterday that I had never heard
before, so get a cup of coffee and read on.  Remember I am not advocating,
just reporting as best I can what I was told.  This ...

Near 80 Years old, Gleason 9, no metastasis to the bone
My father was just diagnosed.
Suggested treatment is castration (doctor's recommendation) or other
hormone therapy.

When is the earliest one can get a fPSA test done? If one were to get
it done with their yearly regular PSA testing, would it be able to help
detect PC sooner?

I didn't have surgery as they said it was too late for that, so they
went into radiation treatment, followed up by extra high powered
treatment (3 zaps in 24 hours.)
After that, my PSA went back to 2, which the urologist said was about

Over the past few months, I've posted one thing or another here
relating to my post-op rising PSA. Here's some interesting news...
On April 14th my PSA was 9.5. Today, exactly two months later, it's
5.6! My doctor was very surprised, and almost as delighted as I. He

Dr Brooks just called me with my pathology results. In his words
"perfect, A+". T2cN0Mx Gleason 3+3=6, with negative margins all round,
clean lymph nodes and seminal vesicles. The Mx is purely because we
have no way to know about metastatic disease until we at least see some

Well, I forgot to take my Flomax Friday evening. I didn't digress very much
so I'm going to try every other day for a while and see how I do.
Larry

Last night my wife and I were having an intimate cuddle in bed. There
was no contact with my genitals (still got the catheter in there and
it's less than a week since surgery). After a while, I had a sensation
of warmth and some faint twitching from my penis. When I took a look,

this confirms that the chemo was not working for curt. his last psa came
back 157. up 12 in one month.and he had had chemo on schedule before that
test.
it will be interesting to see what it is next month after missing a round of