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PSA after 20 Proton treatments

Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Jul 6 4:43pm | Replies (46)
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What do you mean by repurposed drugs.

Regarding proton radiation. Yes will reduce your PSA. Mine (after 30 treatments) went from 3.85 to 1.2 after 3 months. Then 3 months later 0.79 then just recently 0.60. Radiation attacks all cells but normal cells DNA can reproduce where cancer cells when DNA is damaged do not reproduce and die.

This is not my opinion but oncologist/radiologist as UFPTI and oncologist/radiologist at Mayo Clinic Jacksonville.

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jrhamp | @jrhamp | Jul 6 9:15am

I used Loma Linda for proton radiation in 2010. Nearly 2.5 months every morning. I was T1, Gleason 3+3, PSA 6.47. The two biopsies noted slow growth in a concentrated area. A month or so after completion, PSA was under 1.0.

But, now comes the current situation. PSA has risen in 2016 (6 years after completion of proton radiation therapy) to 4.29 jumping one full point in about 8 months.

I just completed an MRI at the VA in Gainsville but have yet to receive the results. If cancer cells are an issue, the options are few. I have TriCare for Life with strong resources, so can go anyplace. The decision matrix is the challenge. I am extremely healthy and active. The other scanning process is the PET scan which uses radiation, but more precise. The normal MRI does not use any radiation and is harmless. The procedure took about 20 minutes. RH

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