Finasteride (Proscar) and dutasteride (Avodart) - and high grade prostate cancer

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Dear , Your three part series should be REQUIRED reading for all physicians as well as all men either diagnosed with prostate cancer or interested in knowing more about prostate cancer. Thank you for bringing these articles to light for all to hopefully take time to read in their entirety. A caregiver recently brought to my attention this quote from Emerson that applies here: " Knowledge is the antidote of fear. " Chuck " What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. " (Chuck) Maack/Prostate Cancer Advocate/Mentor Wichita, Kansas Chapter, Us TOOBiography: http://www.ustoowichita.org/leaders.cfm?content=bio & id=1 Email: maack1@... Chapter Website " Observations " : http://www.ustoowichita.org/observations.cfm From: Strum Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2011 4:23 PMTo: Chuck MaackCc: advancedprostatecancer ; chb@...; ProstateCancerSupport Subject: Re: Finasteride (Proscar) and dutasteride (Avodart) - and high grade prostate cancer Dear Chuck, I covered this issue in GREAT DETAIL with input from many investigators in What We Should Have Learned About Prostate Cancer in the Last Ten Years. Parts I-III. Anyone reading this series would have understood the issues involved with the PCPT and been astounded at the miscommunications to physicians and patients.

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It seems unlikely that these long and

inconclusive debates will ever end, yet it has always seemed to me that there

is such an obvious explanation for all the anomalies in the results.

<SNIP> “We know that hormones affect

the appearance of prostate cancer cells,” Ford said. “So we can speculate on

whether these are truly high-grade tumors or just a change in the way they look

under the microscope. But long-term follow-up is the only thing that’s going to

answer the question.”<SNIP>

Gleason (he of the Gleason Scoring system)

has said that the classifications in the Gleason System cannot be used for the

material recovered from prostate glands in this study. So any arguments based

on the Gleason Grades is simply a waste of time in my opinion.

All the best

Prostate men need enlightening, not

frightening

Terry Herbert - diagnosed in 1996 and

still going strong

Read A Strange Place for unbiased information at http://www.yananow.org/StrangePlace/index.html