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T3b Prostate Cancer with Seminal Vesicle Invasion
I was wondering if anyone had the diagnosis of T3b Stage PCa and had a Prostectomy where Seminal Vesicle Invasion was found. What was the...
Any experiences with Artificial Urinary Sphincter (AUS) or Sling?
Hello. Just wondering if anyone has a long-ish term experience with either the sling or AUS. I had a partial nerve sparing prostatectomy in 2018....
Does Flomax help even without a prostate?
I had around 39(?) radiation treatments last year for a BCR. I've already had an RP in 2013, but after last year's radiation treatments, it's...
Interesting Table of Numbers Post Proton Beam Treatment
Unlike surgery with well defined parameters for BCR, radiation seems to have quite a bit of variability. The photo is from Ron Nelson's book, 10...
Biochemical Recurrence After Prostatectomy
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41391-022-00638-y I came across this article from U of Cal, San Francisco published this year. While I have not done a deep dive into it,...
First detectable uPSA since surgery 14mos ago
After a few Labcorp tests of < 0.006 since surgery in Nov 2023, I finally got the dreaded detectable value at my most recent test…....
Diagnosed At 60 - Radiation Thoughts?
I was recently diagnosed at age 60……3 out of 13 cores all in and around what was classified as a pirad 4 lesion. (3+3), (3+3)...
Are castration sensitive prostate cancer patients being over treated?
Ancan.Org had a meeting with doctors from the National Cancer Institute to discuss over treatment of patients that had BCR (biochemically, recurrent prostate cancer). They...
Concerned procrastinating will affect future prognosis
After RP April 2019 Gleason 9 negative margins pt3a lymph nodes clear, BCR aug 2022 confirmed pet positive lymph node (SUV 1.9) PSA 0.22 was...
Gleason 9 SO wants me to stop ADT @6 Mos for look see
My SO wants to stop ADT after 6 months and wait 2 months then test to see if PSA rises? Does this make sense? Just...
PSMA PET scan found cancer in rib and #3 vertebrae. Any experience?
I recently had my 2nd BCR after 11 years post Prostatectomy from Gleason 9 in 2013 when I was 53. Had 1st BCR Nov 21,...
Urine leakage during sexual activity
I had RP in March 2022, BCR in Sept 2022 and 28 SBRT treatments in Jan-Feb 2023 with ADT. Now that the ADT has left...
Lupron and Zytiga side effects
In July we learned my husband has BCR 1 year post prostatectomy. Imaging confirmed 2 small tumors in the prostate bed. We're so surprised given...
Frequency of PSA Test
I just had my two year-post RP PSA test, and it continues to show undetectible. This is especially good news because I am high risk-...
Worried about recurrence years after radical retropubic prostatectomy
I had RRP in 2008 at Johns Hopkins by Dr. Partin. I was 42. My post-op was Gleason 6 totally contained with no adverse pathological...
Information on limiting ADT
Anyone wishing to get a better handle on whether and when (if ever) he should use ADT, I suggest considering enrolling this clinical trial.NCT05588128 It's...
Timing of ADT + Zytiga - Anyone else start them at different times?
I have locally advanced disease (+ pelvic nodes). My treatment is based on the intensification experiment in one of the arms of the STAMPEDE trial...
first PSA result post salvage RT — 0.086
Late last year I underwent 38 sessions of salvage IMRT for a local recurrence. At the start of radiation treatments, my PSA was 0.094 (ultra...
Pathology report - bahhhhh :/
Ok - here we go, of course it can not be simple with us - ever !!! Sheeeeshhh ... I mean there is nothing simple...
Just got my prostatectomy pathology results
It’s been a while since I last posted. I was diagnosed with prostate cancer in April of last year, Gleason 7 (3+4). PSA was 6.8...
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