Sorry to interrupt. I wont hang around and be a nuisance.
Some time back, a person I know accidentally discovered he had a slightly
elevated PSA count after pressuring his doctor about it. Anyway, cut a long
story short, he had an aggressive prostate cancer which was apparently ...

My question for all of you fine people here is at what psa point  to
start H.T.?   Also can there be a bounce in psa after salvage IMRT to
drive my 0.6
up from 0.1 after approx. 10 mos. ?

New to group and see HT referenced often....what is HT? Thanks!

The latest news seems worth pursuing but I have heard it is like
grapefruit juice and can interefere with meds. Anyone find a resource
regarding this?

I haven't seen this on here before so.
I had rrp in March last year, followup radiation from Nov to Feb this year.
Psa .1 in may.
The last 6 weeks after playing golf(3 times) my first       ion contains a

Chris jiggled a thought in my brain when he said "I think more difficult was
deciding to tell my co-workers.  I didn't tell them until after the surgery,
but I decided that so many people DON'T get PSA checks until it's too late,
that it was worth any potential embarrassment. "

Hello All,.
   Re-accurance......
I hope not, and have been blood let, and tested for 7 years.
I may die of some other prognosis.

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.

They first scheduled me for 40 treatments, but I confered with the PA
yesterday and he said they raised it to 42. I told him my hip had
started hurting again, he said,"yes, we thought so, we need more
x-rays."  How did "we" know? Then the onc came in and asked how severe

The result: 23, not 2.3, but 23, which is abnormally high?
Am now wondering if my specialist who I'll be seeing in two weeks for
the first time will want a new PSA test before deciding anything about
a biopsy, since this test result is so high. I imagine he'll do a

ABC News
August 1, 2006
  http://abcnews.go.com/us/popup?id=2262371
Shortage of Patients in Cancer Trials

2 PSA in a row over 0,2 exactly 0,267 and a month later 0,369.
Uro says it's time for HT: Casodex 10 days than lupron evry 3 months.
RP 1/19/06
age 61

I recently had prostate surgery and am suffering from incontinence.
When I'm near home, I can use pads, but when I'm out in the field for
extended times (days to two weeks), I can't carry a sufficient number.
I recently tried a penile clamp (MIC, a molded polycarbonate device

"Happy"?  No.  Anniversary?  Yes, tomorrow.  RRP August 1, 2003.  In
the O/R about three and a half hours.  A "bloody case" they told my
wife.  Used all three units of autologous blood (am I blackballed for
life for giving blood to the Red Cross because of being a cancer

"Omega-6: fuel for prostate cancer cells?", Reuters UK, February 10,
2006,
Link:
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=healthNews&storyID=2006-02
-10T172708Z_01_COL062760_RTRIDST_0_HEALTH-OMEGA-CANCER-DC.XML&archived=False