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Seeking your thoughts on PSA of .1 on Orgovyx and Nubeqa
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@jeffmarc Thank you Jeff your information and experience are very helpful. That sounds like a good place for another opinion.
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Hi @ucla2025 ,
I can second the recommendation of @jeffmarc of Dr. Carl Rossi at California Protons in San Diego for a second opinion of your husband's situation. Dr. Rossi treated my Gleason 8 (pre-treatment PSA = 7.9) localized prostate cancer with proton beam radiation (Dec 2024 - Feb 2025), and Orgovyx which I started in Oct 2024 and will continue until April 2026. My first PSA test result 4 months after radiation was "< 0.04", and my second PSA test result six months after that was also "< 0.04". I cannot tell you how happy I am about the treatment I received from Dr. Rossi and the team at California Protons. Besides being a great doctor, Dr. Rossi is a wonderful human being and you would enjoy consulting with him. He emphasizes patient quality of life in his treatments. There are quite a few videos on youtube where he discusses proton beam therapy so you can get a bit of background on proton beam there. The more you know before your consultation the better the questions you can ask of him.
You may have to wait a bit for an appointment with him as he does not do that many. You can probably do an initial consult with him via telehealth, as I did (I live in Minnesota.)
Also, if your husband needs to stay in San Diego during treatment and is a veteran, he and you may be able to stay at Fisher House at Naval Medical Center San Diego (at no cost) and then commute to California Protons as needed. This is what I did, and I cannot say enough positive things about Fisher House and their staff.
I just wanted to make a couple of small corrections about what Jeff said about Dr. Rossi's experience. Dr. Rossi did his medical residency at Loma Linda University and then practiced there for many years. Loma Linda was the first commercial proton beam facility in the US. In 2013, Dr. Rossi moved to the California Protons clinic in San Diego (formerly Scripps) as medical director. To date, Dr. Rossi has treated over 13,000 patients, and over 9,000 of those were treated with proton beam therapy.
Best of fortunes to your husband and you! Feel free to reach out to me if I may provide more information.
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@ucla2025 Actually the drive is quite beautiful if you don’t get caught in the god-awful traffic.