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Looking for men who recently had a laparoscopic radical prostatectomy
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Sep 1, 2023 | Replies (54)Comment receiving replies
Your doing great. My PSA was 4.2 and Gleason scores: 6 were 3+4 and 6 were 3+3. I had 8 lymph-node biopsies: 7 no cancer and 1 with a trace (Ugh).
Mayo suggested 39 radiation treatments plus 24 months of hormone shots. My wife and I discussed this and prayed about it. Instead, I went on active surveillance with PSA testing every three months and embracing the Mediterranean Diet. What this diet does is bring your testosterone (fertilizer for cancer) down, which is what hormone therapy does, only without the nasty side effects. So far, this has worked! Starting next January, I’ll get my PSA tested every 6 month, and hopefully with the same results.
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I had a 4.2 PSA in March ‘22 army primary said to check it in 3 mos to see if it went down. In June it was 3.8 so he just said it went down and I left it at that. March ‘23 it was 6.3. By then I did some research and was updated on the numbers etc. I should hkame been referred to urology in ‘22. I had. A Pet scan, bone scan and CT scan, all clear. A few days before the surgery they ordered an MRI. Must be the MRI showed something because 2 minutes before I went to surgery he took of me he was cutting wide and he took 9 lymph nodes. So I think he wanted me to have 5 weeks of radiation regardless but then someone else said radiation if it was in my lymph nodes. I don’t go back to the surgeon until 9/14. It’s one of those I want to know but I don’t want to know.
So did you have the radiation and not the hormone treatments or neither. I. What’s hoping to have. Other surgery and be doe with it but I guess I still have a long road. I may be interested in the Mediterranean diet. I’m a picky eater and Dr eat many fruits or vegetables but I’ll have to look into it.
My name is Bill and I live in Binghamton, NY. I hope we can keep in contact!