unfortunatelly father died in may, 2006. he was all the time conscious until
last day. he phoned my brother and could say only word: come. broter came
and he grabed his hand and died. strange, how can man predict his death?
thank you all for support.

Does anybody here have personal experience with the clinical trial
going on that adds Avastin to the regular chemo treatment for advanced
PC?
Thanks, Allan

I am 55 years old and about six months out from having a radical
prostatectomy. I found a good doctor and all went well with both nerves
spared. My erections are now about eighty percent of what they were before
the surgery... well, at least at times it is. Incontinence is not ...

TO: All prostate cancer researchers, doctors, and patients.
The purpose of this yearly post is to stimulate interest and discussion
about the biomechanical effects of shoes on "age-related" degenerative
diseases, such as prostate cancer.  Chiropodist Dr. Simon J. Wikler

Got my latest PSA test back, seems there is a trend developing.
First Test July 2005 2.1
Second Test May 2006 2.7
Third Test August 2006 3.7.

I would like to recommend to you all a really good website that I came
across.  It is called:
Endotext.org
I would give it about ****1/2 stars because I found it to be extremely

Prostate biopsies have been recommended when the PSA (Prostatic
Specific Antigen) gets higher.
However, there are many conditions beside prostate cancer that heighten
the PSA, being the most frequent urinary infections, tumors, cysts,

Here's a link to a Reuters article on the cost of Pca treatments.
http://www.cancerpage.com/news/article.asp?id=10479

I saw this in another forum and thought it was interesting.
Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 17:53:14 -0800 (PST)
From: Keith Hilton <sunstone4gems@yahoo.com>
My son-in-law, who is an MD, an Internist, and is in training to become

I'm writing this message to tranquillize many people. I'm in Italy and
I had an RRP in November 2003. I made the PSA test every six months
and it was <0.02.  Six months ago it was 0.02 (without the sign <
before the number). My urologist said that it possible to have some

I am at 18 months after radiation and seed implants for prostate cancer.  My
PSA is now down to .19.
Doctor says all looks good.  The bad side is that for now 3 months I burn
every time I urinate.

I debating removing myself from the clinical trial I've taken part of
since May of  06. A Lupron shot every three months along with a daily
regimen of Casodex. The hot flash SEs kicked in immediately, not too
bad though. The joint problem SEs kicked in in November. No doubt about

Stirring up the hornet's nest some more, during my "research" for PCa
treatment, I came across this article, and wondered if the fact that
nerves are spared my caused future metastasis of PCa (or biochemical
recurrence). It seemed that if these nerves are somehow the "carrier"

No more gifts to doctors, trade group rules
Aim is to stop influencing which drugs to prescribe
By Andrea Gerlin
January 4, 2007

http://www.cancerfightingstrategies.com
JohnB
Sugars_that_heal@hotmail.com