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• Viking has commented on a news story

  If the prostate cancer has become castration resistant, how does Zytiga help? Isn't castration resistance (the ability of the cancer to grow in the absence of testosterone) just that? Zytiga, the article states lowers testosterone but then so do all the other drugs and if the cancer can grow in the absence of testosterone where is the advantage coming from?

  January 03 at 12:57 PM view news story

• Viking has replied to a post on the message board

  Sorry forgot to say that my surgery was in 2006

  January 03 at 12:49 PM view post

• Viking has replied to a post on the message board

  Did your husband ever have salvage or any other form of radiation treatment? I ask because radiation treatment can cause 'radiation cystitis'. This condition severly weakens the blood vessels in the bladder and causes bleeding. It usually manifests itself a number of years after radiation therapy. In my case it started back this October, quite severly and caused considerable worry. However a susequent visual inspecti...

  January 03 at 12:47 PM view post

• Viking has created a new message board discussion

  I cannot find reference on CC to this article in the 'New Scientist'. It looks quite promising but then again it is only on phase 1 trials. You will see from the article that the research has been on going for some 15 years so hopefully it may hold out some hope of a PC cure rather than a slowing down. Check out the article in 'New Scientist' and ask your Oncologist/Urologist about it. The more people who show intere...

  July 12 at 6:58 AM view discussion

• Viking has created a new message board discussion

  The aggressiveness of my prostate cancer is hard to judge and I get little help in determining this from my oncologist. It does not help that I started treatment in Ontario with a RP and then had radiation treatment in the UK where I am living until next year before I return to Nova Scotia next summer. I was diagnosed gleason 3/4 PSA 16 in early 2006. I had ADT for six months then an RP in January 2007. I continued A...

  August 18, 2011 view discussion

• Viking has commented on a news story

  "Many men dont hear", that is a joke. I was told that there may be a posibbility of incontinence but the worst would go away within a year. I was told that spaiting one side of nerves would probablky enable me to function sexually as before. After surgery, I was needing six pads a day but not at night and after a year this was still the case. I have not been able to have an erection at all. After a year I was recomme...

  August 14, 2011 view news story

• Viking has created a new message board discussion

  I had RP in Jan 2007. At that time my PSA was 17. Prior to the RP I had treatment for 6 months which shrunk my prostate size from 72mg to 50mg and reduced my PSA to 0.04. By September 2009 my PSA had climbed to 0.26. I was given a six month course of hormone deprivation therapy and in April 2010 underwent radiation salvage treatment. In May 2010 my PSA was 0.04 and in November 0.26 again. My current PSA (end of May ...

  June 03, 2011 view discussion