Medical Study NewsPublished: Monday, 15-Aug-2005  
 Researchers in the United States say that prostate cancer developed
in 20 men within months to a few years after they began testosterone
supplementation, to correct a deficiency of the hormone.

Surgery 8/19/99 at Emory University Hospital, Atlanta Georgia.  Dr Harry
Clarke Surgeon.
PSA results came back from last weeks blood work.PSA was "0.0518".  I am
really pleased.

I had prostate surgery last Tuesday.  Everything seems to be going well
except with my right leg.  I have a problem moving it in certain directions
(range of motion I think they call it).  I can walk ok, but when I try to
rise it, like when driving and going from the gas to the ...

15 Aug 2005
Researchers from Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown
University found that testing for an activated Stat5 protein in prostate
tumor tissue effectively predicts which men have a form of prostate

I had a radical prostatectomy in Dec 2001.  Post op path was Gleason 3+4=7 ,
Extracapsular disease (not sure what this means but the urologist has
written it on the referral mentioned below).
Since the op all my PSA tests have resulted in <0.01.  The last three

 One of those "30%" Doctors said biopsies will always
be positive in males above 50 .
 Another bit i read says male deaths ( over 55 and not due to P'
cancer ) showed positive biopsies in 50% of those deaths .

Sorry....I meant to mention this earlier.
Dr. Sanjay Gupta is doing a Special at 8 pm Eastern Time on cancer,
including new medical discoveries, survivor stories, etc.  It will be
repeated here at 11 pm.....I assume that is the same in the US.   I have no

Now precisely 5 days since I awoke in the recovery room. Off all pain
meds now and reasonable comfortable. I've curtailed my walking distances
because it definitely leads to more pink in the pee bag which gives me
pause - as a student I read Hilton's "On Rest and Pain". It just ...

For whatever it's worth, we've decided to discontinue the soy.  Thanks to
all who replied to my query.  There just seems to be little evidence that it
does any good once you've acquired PCa and possibly harm (Ed Friedman's
article was impressive).  There is no real way for ...

Check this out.  Sounds familiar, eh?
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/14/health/14patient.html?hp&ex=1123992000&en=8579
ee38e11e0267&ei=5094&partner=homepage

Every few nights for perhaps a good 30 seconds and then possibly more than
once in an hour then nothing for a few nights, I get this intense pain in
the prostate. I mean so intense I cant walk, battle not to fall to my knees
howling on the spot and you name it in the pelvic ...

I've lurked here for a while but now I'm at the end of my long preparation and facing laparoscopic
RRP this tuesday morning. At 54, with no family history, it seems a little earlier than I was
hoping, but there you go.
This post is for the record. Occasional but steadily ...

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There is also an article on Optimum Nutrition in the Editorial section

All of us who have to live with the demon cancer become part of a
special family, no matter what the brand of our malady. So it is with
great sadness that I mourne the passing of one of my family, and a
great man, Mr Peter Jennings

Strict diet program may help prostate cancer-study
11 Aug 2005 04:00:36 GMT
Source: Reuters
WASHINGTON, Aug 11 (Reuters) - A strict vegetarian diet combined with