RE: UroToday - Anatomic Excision of Anterior Prostatic Fat at Radical Prostatectomy: Implications for Pathologic Upstaging

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Kathy, Hello, it's again wanting to know exactly what this means. I think you sent like four e-mails, none of which I could understand. Could you at least give a summary at the top of each study. I just want to know what this means for my husband who is going to have his prostate out on Feb. 26th. This is going to change our lives forever in everyway.

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It means that they have discovered Lymph

nodes hidden in the fat of some men who have heavy fat layer toward the

anterior part of the prostate. If the cancer is located in that region some of

it may escape to those lymph nodes. The doctors are being to told to be extra

careful to not miss examining those nodes. If there is mets in those nodes then

those men may be understaged, told they got all the cancer, and appropriate

additional treatment may not be done. There are men who have recurrence of

their cancer after treatment. They are trying to minimize this.

When I first started reading these

abstracts I had to read then several times with a medical dictionary so I could

understand them. Everyone has difficulty at first.

The American Cancer Society has a book on

prostate cancer. Some men really like Prostate Cancer for Dummy’s by Dr.

Lange and some men like the books by Dr Walsh and by Dr Scardino. All of the

books are available at Amazon.com. They should help to get you more comfortable

with the terminology.. If you have specific questions or concerns just ask and

someone here should be able to answer.

Kathy

From: ProstateCancerSupport

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Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008

9:10 PM

To:

ProstateCancerSupport

Subject: Re:

UroToday - Anatomic Excision of Anterior Prostatic Fat

at Radical Prostatectomy: Implications for Pathologic Upstaging

Kathy,

Hello, it's again wanting to know exactly what this

means. I think you sent like four e-mails, none of which I could

understand. Could you at least give a summary at the top of each

study. I just want to know what this means for my husband who is going to

have his prostate out on Feb. 26th. This is going to change our lives

forever in everyway.

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your homepage.