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Living with Prostate Cancer: Meet others & introduce yourself
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Sep 10, 2024 | Replies (648)Comment receiving replies
The Oncologist at UVM Medical Center in VT suggested doing the Genomic testing when we went over my biopsy results. They made their own results and then sent the biopsies right out to Genomic people for the advanced results. Unfortunately those results also put me on the more aggressive side. There is also a very good support group here that I've been to a few times, and I don't find anyone pushing any particular procedure or saying that one is better than another. Everyone has a different story.. Some have been dealing with it for years and some are very new. They are all putting their info out about what did or didn't work for them, so information can be accumulated and used or not... The Laser Ablation could be one of the futures for treatment but it's newer and not totally accredited yet.............
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Dave, since you have had Genomic testing, you might want to take a look at this video on treating prostrate cancer focusing on biomarkers. It was produced about 4 weeks ago. https://www.practiceupdate.com/c/90568/67/11/. Practice Update comes out about weekly and has one edition just focusing on prostrate cancer. It is meant for medical professionals and can get pretty dense and beyond me, but I found this video very interesting. The report indicates that PARP inhibitors have been successful in treating some forms of prostrate cancer caused by breaks in targeted parts of our DNA. It also has been successful in treating other forms of cancer, including breast and pancreas, also caused by breaks in the same parts of the DNA. I've only recently become aware of the importance of Genomic testing after reading the book Lifespan by David Sinclair. It is possible that in future treatment of cancer might be determined by what part of our DNA had the breaks that caused the cancer. Hope this is helpful.