I am 10 weeks from my LRP, and my surgeon recommended using Viagra to
jump start my recovery. The inital LRP was complicated with a bladder
stricture 3 weeks post op which has delayed my continence. During the
discussion with my surgeon, he suggested waiting until my continence

Since being diagnosed with prostate cancer last week I've been
fortunate to have the loving support of my wife, children, and extended
family, as well as of professional colleagues. After receiving the
results of my biopsy last week, I sent e-mails to my relatives and to

Below is an abstract from a recent paper by Dr. Klotz, an active
investigator in the area of Watchful Waiting / Active Surveillance
(WW/AS).  By studying a group of men practicing WW/AS over a number of
years, Dr. Klotz was able to define groups at high and low risk for

You can personally help find a cure for cancer without spending much
more than a few minutes of your time to set up your computer to donate
its spare power (like when a screen saver would start) to do medical
research for a non-profit organization.  This has been set up by IBM,

this is just the beginning for some of our navy brothers who served in
vietnam and have suffered from the effects of agent orange but were told
that because they were not on land,  the gov't is not responsible..
~ curtis

I have what is a question that would probably be easily answered by a
phone call to my insurance company. However, as we are now in the
middle of a long weekend and the insurance offices are closed, I'm
wondering about the experiences anyone here who has had (or performed)

Dietary changes and stress management may attenuate prostate cancer
progression according to a new study.
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New Gene Therapy Appears To Shrink Tumors in Two Cases
Excerpted from Wall Street Journal article of September 1, 2006; Page A11
For the first time in the history of cancer treatment, gene therapy has
apparently succeeded in shrinking and even eradicating large, metastatic

Some general words of advice to those evaluating treatment options:
- Don't pay too much attention to the SE rates quoted here or elsewhere
on the Internet. What you want are the figures for the team that will
be treating you. If the doctors you are talking to can't give you

Periodically something comes up about the final stages of cancer. I've seen
several people die from cancer and known several more but I've never seen
two people go through the same things in the same order, seems it is
different for everyone. The National Cancer Institute has a ...

This is the only newsgroup that I read that does not have 'follow-up'
threads. Every reply post has its own 'RE:' topic. I would say that's
it's my clumsy ability with computers, but none of the other
newsgroups do this. Anyone have a clue?

I'm back again (my original post was "tests questions".
Anyway, things have become more complicated for me.
1-  For one thing the more research I do the more my conclusions are
that all of the treatments carry considerable risk.  Duh! I know it's

I have to say this is one of those newsgroups I hoped never to post in
but here goes anyway.
I came back from holiday a week ago to be told the news that my brother
(47) has a PSA of 243 and a biopsy has confirmed he has prostate

I'm somewhat hesitant to post this here since I know that the prostate
biopsy that I have scheduled for Monday is unavoidable and a necessary
diagnostic procedure.
However, I've got some trepidations resulting, in part, from the

Hi Mr. Loomis:
I just received your PSA and it remains undetectable (<0.06 ng/ml).
Congratulations.  Check it again in a year.
Best,