I posted about 60 days ago regarding my husband.  He decided to go sky
diving and beforehand wanted to buy an additional life insurance policy
that would take him up through the age of 71.  All his blood work came
back great EXCEPT his PSA.  It was 5.02.  The previous year it had ...

Finally got the confusion settled on the lab that was screwing up either
psa tests or reporting of results, or both:
10/19/05 - 0.00 - (Hunter)
06/02/06 - 0.05 - (Quest)

Link to Gettysburg photos showing the Gettysburg battlefield before
superintendent John Latschar's ego ran amok and ruined it.
http://users.snip.net/~hart/
We loved Gettysburg: married there, took dozens of week-long trips, spent

For those of you who, like me, are "almost but not quite" in the
erection department and thus need the aid of expensive pills with
questions about long-term side effects, I really do recommend you try
the goold old-fashioned cock ring. On the recommendation of a

My bone and CT scans came back negative (thank God). So, I guess I'll
be going for robotic surgery around mid to late September.
In the meantime, I'm trying to optimize my diet and supplements to give
me the best chance for a good outcome. In addition to my normal

I wanted to let you all know the follow-up to this post ...
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.support.cancer.prostate/browse_thread/thread/
4cc0995961199a99
I had been very busy getting Tom into see other docs, including an
oncologist, and doing much more research.

What I really do not understand is why the odds seems to increase
substantially that PCa returns after 10 or 15 years.
If a man was monitoring his PSA and PCa was found in the early stages
and subsequently had a RRP performed what are his odds of having PCa

Is it possible for the uterus to prolapse into the rectum and actually come
out leading to diagnose it as an internal hemroid?

Cancer- What treatment is best for you? Which methods have proven to be
most effective? Here you can find answers to your questions, plus learn
about what to ask your physician, what's new in research, and what you
can expect after treatment is over.

I started on viagra about two months ago and it has been mainly getting
better and better each time I use it. Once in while it may not work as
well as the time before but don't be discouraged because it usually is
OK the next time out. I find that the trend is definitely "up" so to

Looks to me that no one told the group, Merle passed away in November/05
http://www.merlebloom.com/ (see "It's over").
Thought some of you might remember and want to know.
This seems to be her first post (from the archives)

IP said "I don't know at what age the threat of irreversibility becomes
significant, but if I were "old" and contemplating ADT, I'd find out."
So how old is old? When we were twenty we thought fifty was old and 60
really was old, but since most of us are baby boomers - just what is ...

Interesting article on WebMD, "Fear Factor in Early Prostate Cancer."
See: http://www.webmd.com/content/article/126/116211.htm
It's subtitled, "Fear, Misunderstandings About Treatment Options May
Sway Patients' Choices."

Testosterone and Prostate Cancer: An Historical Perspective on a Modern
Myth.Morgentaler A.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston,
Massachusetts, USA.

The Sloan Kettering web site gives some references which explain the
research behind their nomogram.   I downloaded one of the articles
Postoperative nomogram predicting the 10-year probability of prostate
cancer recurrence after radical prostatectomy.