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My ISP is about to cancel Usenet service All group participants: As may be a sign of the times, by ISP, Cox is going to cancel all Usenet service shortly. This means I will no longer be able to view alt.support.cancer.prostate. I am a long term Usenet user, having started out about 20 years ago with a dial up Unix account. But now apparantly Usene... 18 May 2010 18:09
First Post-Radiation PSA Test Just got back from checkup appointment with my radiation oncologist. This was almost 4 months after the end of radiation. He said the result of the PSA test that I had last week was 0.02. This was lower that I expected, but as he explained it, probably due to the fact it has been less than 2 months since the e... 9 May 2010 01:26
Anniversity Present Hello Friends, As many of you know on May 8, 2004, one year after having seeds implanted and a course of IMRT, my PSA went south to from 6.8 to 32.3 and I had mets to L2 & T3. By June I enrolled into a chemo trial for six months of treatment. Today I logged another round of clean scans. PSA remains at <0.1 ... 7 May 2010 07:50
Surgical Robot examined in injuries Anyone considering Da Vinci surgery should Google that title term with WSJ to find today's article in which surgeons concur that it takes hundreds of procedures for a (presumably good) surgeon to become proficient with Da Vinci. How many operations does your prospective surgeon have under his ... and his pat... 5 May 2010 12:40
The night before! OK, once again my friends over this group have come thru for me. I just got finished reading all of the responses..wow. I can honestly say I feel better about tomorrow. Im definatly let everyone know how it went. OK. so should I even sak about the 20 staples that are coming out tomorrow also? And then there is the ... 7 May 2010 15:39
Finally over Well if you will go back and look at my previous posts you will see what I have been preparing for. Got diagnosed with pCA in Jan and just had the robotic prostatectomy done on the 28th of April. Last Wednesday. I'm happy to be alive, I know that. I was scared to the 10th power. Forgot the old myth that old crusty ... 14 May 2010 22:41
FDA Tightens Controls on Anemia Drugs http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_95341.html Procrit, similar medicines have been tied to strokes, tumor progression in cancer patients, agency says Tuesday, February 16, 2010 HealthDay news imageTUESDAY, Feb. 16 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. federal health authorities on Tuesday rolled out a new safe... 4 May 2010 01:22
10 Years Ago Tomorrow ameyer2(a)yahoo.com (Alan Meyer) wrote: Now now fellows, don't be cruel. I like Mikayla's postings, and I suspect her husband is a lucky man. Yes he is, and he knows it. Like he frequently says, "There are men who would literally kill in order to be married to a woman like you." The fact of the matter i... 3 May 2010 06:35
Provenge: Don't rely on FDA for safety on this one The safety evaluation of PROVENGE is based on 601 prostate cancer patients in the PROVENGE group who underwent at least 1 leukapheresis procedure in four randomized, controlled clinical trials < http://www.fda.gov/downloads/BiologicsBloodVaccines/CellularGeneTherapyProducts/ApprovedProducts/UCM210031.pdf Th... 4 May 2010 02:27
Radiation Implants, Mapping I completed the Mapping Phase at the local Hospital on Friday. This involved a general anesthetic for the one hour procedure. I was knocked-out for 2.5 hours total. This involved also the rectal ultrasound probe and a catheter into the prostate that was used as a guidepost. I woke-up after the procedure with no p... 3 May 2010 17:38 |