RE: Treatment questions - PDT

[Guest guest]

I did a short write up on PDT about 18

months ago. It is here http://www.yananow.org/choices.htm#PDT

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

From:

ProstateCancerSupport

[mailto:ProstateCancerSupport ] On Behalf Of Obermeier

Sent: Thursday, 23 June 2011 6:44

AM

To:

ProstateCancerSupport

Subject: Re:

Treatment questions

Lynn,

Only surgery is likely to cause shrinkage. Only Active surveillance

leaves one with all ejaculate and no shrinkage. All other treatments will

effect ejaculate. Surgery leaves none and with radiation it decreases with

time. There is an experimental approach called PDT which is in clinical

trials in London and I believe Toronto. With

that some prostate is left but then again, cancer can be left with it.

I tried to get in the London

trials two years back but I fell slightly out of their criterion for

acceptance. The study was being done at University College Hospital

London under the direction of Mark Emberton. The drug used was called

Tookad aka WST 111, being produced by a French pharma company. If you

do look into photodynamic therapy (PDT) be sure the work is listed in

clinicaltrials .gov so you avoid the quacks

Subject: Treatment questions

To: ProstateCancerSupport

Date: Wednesday, June 22, 2011, 4:21 PM

Are there any treatments that do not effect the

amount of ejaculate produced by a man? It would seem not, since everything

goes after the prostate itself, but I was curious.

Also, are there any treatments that dont have the risk of the side effect of

" shrinkage " ?

These and other questions....

Thanks guys,

Lynn