Yana updates : Final for 2010

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This is the last Up Date

for 2010 and I have closed the site for more updates or new entries until

mid-January. By then, when I get back from my vacation, I’m hoping that I

will have made it quicker and easier to process entries.

NEW POSTS:

http://www.yananow.org/Mentors/SimonL.htm

SIMON LORD chose Manual Laparoscopic Prostatectomy

http://www.yananow.org/Mentors/TedG.htm

TED GREGORY newly diagnosed with a PSA of 244.0, GS 9 and Stage T4 has chosen

ADT (Androgen Deprivation Therapy)

http://www.yananow.org/Mentors/LJ2.htm

L JONES says he is undecided but seems to have chosen (AS) Active

Surveillance inadvertently

http://www.yananow.org/Mentors/ArthurC.htm

ARTHUR CLAYTON chose RP (Radical Prostatectomy) and in what

seems to me to be a somewhat bizarre recommendation, he says that newly

diagnosed men should ‘Stay away from the Internet….” and declines

to publish his e-mail address. Guess you can’t win them all.

http://www.yananow.org/Mentors/C3.htm GARY C chose RALP

(Robotic Assisted Laparoscopic Prostatectomy) right after Thanksgiving

UPDATES FROM MEMBERS:

The first Update is from an old pal whose story

demonstrates just how individual our paths can be. DOUG ADAM ( http://www.yananow.org/Mentors/DougA.htm ) one of our

Platinum Members, diagnosed in 1991 with a stage T3 GS 10 disease had RP

(Radical Prostatectomy) and EBRT (External Beam Radiation Therapy) which failed

and so he moved to ADT (Androgen Deprivation Therapy) but felt the cure was

worse than the disease and went on “ADT vacation” after eighteen

months in 1998. He is still in remission and still on vacation, demonstrating

if nothing else that when it is said that all prostate cancer will become

hormone independent, it may be common but it ain’t universal

http://www.yananow.org/Mentors/DeanP.htm DEAN

PATRICK has had continuing problems with strictures after his Brachytherapy failed and he had RP (Radical

Prostatectomy) with adjuvant ADT (Androgen Deprivation Therapy – stopped

after 12 months) and is now completely incontinent and impotent

http://www.yananow.org/Mentors/MikeC.htm

MIKE C celebrates two years after RALP (Robotic Assisted Laparoscopic Surgery) with no PSA, no incontinence, no ED and 100 days fly-fishing this

year – meeting his Bucket List quota

http://www.yananow.org/Mentors/IqiS.htm

IQI SINGH chose ADT (Androgen Deprivation Therapy) he had a rapidly rising PSA

and after his scans showed metastases

http://www.yananow.org/Mentors/TerryF.htm TERRY FEE six month PSA

test undetectable: ED improving slowly after RP (Radical Prostatectomy)

http://www.yananow.org/Mentors/B.htm PETER BROWN all’s

going well after EBRT (External Beam Radiation Therapy), Brachytherapy, ADT

(Androgen Deprivation Therapy)

http://www.yananow.org/Mentors/RayJ.htm RAY JONES ten months

since his RALP (Robotic Assisted Laparoscopic Prostatectomy) with an

undetectable PSA and ED improving

http://www.yananow.org/Mentors/S4.htm RICHARD SKEY diagnosed

with a PSA over 2,000 ng/ml, T4 GS 10 is on Taxotere after ADT (Androgen

Deprivation Therapy) failed and his PSA reached 583.0 ng/ml

http://www.yananow.org/Mentors/T.htm JOHN THOMPSON chose

Brachytherapy and IMRT (Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy) for his GS 7,

PSA 40 diagnosis and alls well with no side effects

http://www.yananow.org/Mentors/L2.htm

JOHN LEMLEY while on AS (Active Surveillance) has had a rise of 0.60 in his

PSA and a new doctor is urging a second biopsy

http://www.yananow.org/Mentors/JakeH.htm

JAKE HANNAM reports his PSA after Focal Cryotherapy

http://www.yananow.org/Mentors/BobC2.htm BOB C ponders on whether

he made the right choice in RALP (Robotic Assisted Laparoscopic Prostatectomy) given

his ED and inguinal hernia

http://www.yananow.org/Mentors/IanY.htm IAN YEARWOOD continues

with his Watchful Waiting despite another PSA rise

I’d like to take

this opportunity of wishing you all the best over the holidays – may all

your PSAs be low. I’d also like to thank all of you who have submitted

your stories and kept them up to date. I believe this makes the site a unique

resource.

Finally, for those of

you who arranged the snow in Europe ahead of

our ‘White Christmas Tour’ – Thanks very much, but don’t

you think you may have overdone it just a tad?

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.net/StrangePlace/index.html