Re: Recapitulation of Findings

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THANK YOU SO MUCH..that is a VERY INFORMATIVE article/fast list you provided. Now I'll have to get the book and start reading.

My psa went from 2 to 16 in about 8 months..so the rapid rise was cause for the hormone/radiation treatment. It is UNDERWAY...so will let you

know how it ends up. GONE I HOPE! My Gleason was 7...

To: ProstateCancerSupport Sent: Tue, April 27, 2010 11:33:19 AMSubject: Recapitulation of Findings

Folks,After surviving this blasted disease for 15 years (bPSA>50, T3N1M0 andso on .. ) I thought, there must be something more to show for it than abook no-one seems either to understand or is interested in anyway ..So, I uploaded a GIF you may like. See the FILES section. I'll keep itthere for a couple of days and if interest warrants, will reply toquestions.Any of you who have been following my posts may recall I also uploaded afile a while back on IHT. When you look at this graph you will seeperiods where my PSA shoots up rapidly from "zero" and then levels off.I quote from the IHT upload:-Is there a fear of the initial PSA spike produced when androgenrecovery is resumed? This characteristic rapid increase, probablydue to up-regulation of the androgen receptor, often slows downand may level out to produce a zero PSA velocity.Some sources will insist on undetectable

ultrasensitive PSA to bethe starting point for withdrawal of chemical castration. Others haveput the PSA starting point as high as 4.0 ng/ml.Since prostate tumor is often well behaved, standard PSA kineticalgorithms can be used to predict a ceiling PSA for cut-off purposes.Some suggest the PSA ceiling during off treatment should be nohigher than single figure numbers, whereas other sources ventureto go much higher. One rule of thumb for the PSA ceiling has been20 ng/ml or the value at time of diagnosis – whichever was the less.Talk to you later.Sammy.http://fitcare. org.uk/