From Medline. Jan 22.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_60313.html
Full story.
TUESDAY, Jan. 22 (HealthDay News) -- Adding hormone therapy to

Curious as to others experiences/opinions.
I'm 63 years old with BPH (large).
Over the last 3 years my PSA numbers have ranged (no trend) from 2.8 to
3.4 with the last at 2.9 in July of this year until now.

I haven't posted for a long time.  The fall term here was pretty hectic, as
I was teaching in our Freshman Studies program.  A mathematician teaching
about the Spanish conquest of Mexico?  Hmmph!
This term will probably be a whirlwind, too, as I'm preparing for the

By D'Amico et al in JAMA, 2008;299(3):289-295.
"Conclusions:  The addition of 6 months of AST (androgen suppression
therapy aka ADT) to RT resulted in increased overall survival in men
with localized but unfavorable-risk prostate cancer. This result may

I had prostate surgery in Nov. 2006. This week I began to lift weights
and that night I used viagra and had sex. I woke up peeing blood and I
assumed it was maybe the viagra because I seldom use the pills. So I
worked out yesterday and had sex again last night, with no viagra.

I fear newbies or lurkers may take an unnecessarily downbeat view of
post RP continence prospects after I.P.'s 'surprising' post so, if
anyone feels like chalking up their outcome here.....?
0 pads/LRP

I just returned from a short trip to Costa Rica only to find 532 new posts
in this newsgroup!
I imagine there are some important and interesting gems among them but I
can't bring myself to read them all.

Diagnosed with PC at age 45 with a gleason factor of 7. Had a
Prostatectomy. 5 years later the PSA number went from undetetectable
to 0.4. Radiation treatement was given and the PSA was undetectable
for 4 years when it jumped to 0.2. What are my options for any cure

See: Israeli RS, et al, "Managing bone loss in men with locally advanced
prostate cancer receiving androgen deprivation therapy." J Urol. 2008
Feb;179(2):414-23.
"CONCLUSIONS: Because the most significant bone mineral density loss

I'm about 90 days post brachy, and my urination is (to my thinking) odd.  
The doc put me on flomax (1) and that didn't work all that great.  He
then went to two which works some better.  He left it up to me if I
wanted one every 12 hours or two every 24.  I've tried it both ways.

I believe Peter Headland probably hit it on the head when he said, "This
group is self-reflecting to be more technically literate and questioning
than the population at large". Many here probably fit into a subset of
individuals that are more educated and even a little more ...

Seeded 29 December 06, PSA 4.4
3 months later 1.1
6 months later 0.93
12 months later 0.95

It's been a little over 2 years since my LRP and PSA remains
undetectable.

I'm a 59 year old from New Zealand and was diagnosed approx 3 years
ago with PSA of 10.5 and a Gleeson of 3+4=7.  Since that time, I've
had EBRT in January/February 2005 over a period of 7 weeks.  PSA
levels came down to 1.4 after the Radiation.

In August 2007, Henry's PSA was up, from 0.2 to 1.7 and he was put on
Casodex in addition to the Lupron.   By mid-December, the PSA had risen
to 13.  He was taken off Casodex on December 31 and started on Dilaudid
and Decadron.  After a 5-day hospital stay, he starts radiation