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WSJ on Watchful Waiting From the Wall Street Journal, March 28, 2006: Doctors Seek to Identify Which Patients Can Avoid Prostate-Cancer Treatment Several cancer centers are now conducting research to determine which patients are the best candidates for watchful waiting. Last week University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center ann... 28 Mar 2006 20:10
appraising the surgeon's skills? Still in a dither about which Tx to opt for though my 'eligibility' for surgery is pulling me that way . Of course most contributors here are from the US so I guess this will be hard to answer for me in the UK, but I wonder how proactive patients are in seeking out the most skilled? How does one go about it? ... 23 Mar 2006 08:32
biopsy and metastasis .....(still boning up my meagre knowledge!).. This must have been aired before - is the risk of metastasis through needle biopsy fully discounted amongst the cognoscenti? ... 22 Mar 2006 11:43
salvage radiation after RP Here's my situation: 4/99 PSA 1.58 10/01 PSA 1.68 9/02 PSA 2.7 10/03 PSA 3.8 11/03 Positive biopsy for Gleasons 6 on left side. One Lupron shot given. Whole body bone scan and CT abdomen and pelvis scan performed: all negative. Age at diagnosis 54. 1... 30 Mar 2006 18:10
TURP problems I know this news group is for prostate cancer but wonder if anyone could help me. Five weeks ago I had a TURP. It has been five weeks of leakage. I am using the pads but that is not the answer for me. My question > has anyone else had leakage after a TURP ? If so how long and what did you do to stop it.And did yo... 17 Mar 2006 14:15
"No surgery for 65 yr olds" says NIH head Dr. Elias Zerhouni, director of the National Institutes of Health, said yesterday on the Diane Rehm program, "It's pretty clear ...there is a consensus... that surgery after the age of 65 does not make a lot of sense. There is a general consensus there." For younger ages there is a different story, but the main cri... 18 Mar 2006 02:39
Question about "seeds" About "seeds." Not used for "large prostate." Is this so, and why??? ... 19 Mar 2006 16:56
Hifu Hi I had Hifu 3 weeks ago in Australia Gold Coast. feel 100% was 2 weeks with a supra-pubic catheter through my lower abdomen that was the only little problem,getting it out was a relief,but know I have no side effects everything is the way it was before. regards Steve ... 20 Mar 2006 09:30
Help me understand this message on WebMD There is a message on the WebMD prostate cancer group, that I don't understand. This gentleman recently had a RRP. His numbers were a gleason score of 6 (3+3), T1c, and psa of 4.4. Here is a quote from his message that I don't understand (hope he doens't mind) "My urologist did say however that even with my numb... 17 Mar 2006 20:29
update John Preston Well things are a changing, the stage one clinical trial (IV antibody) that John started a couple of months ago has been abandoned, this is due to a rising PSA and disease progression. After 2 cycles of treatment Johns PSA is now 295 so it obviously was not working. We have an appointment at Royal Marsden to d... 29 Mar 2006 10:33 |