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Today's New Posts and Updates

Tuesday, 5 August 2008

Here are today’s updates and new posts – it’s quite a mixed bag. I think virtually every treatment option is mentioned from HIFU to Cryotherapy via radiation and surgery!!.

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AL CALKINS - diagnosed last week with very low PSA (1.4 ng/ml) and very high Gleason Score 10 – considering Cryotherapy


DENNIS DENNISISSURE – is on a very rough trip after surgery in 2006

MARK DENTON – two years out from surgery, Mark has some advice on ED




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HOWARD GHERMAN - fours years after brachytherapy he still has some bouts of radiation cystitis

ROB PARSONS - a bad diagnosis in 2002 made Rob mad, but he reckons he’s got even now and is enjoying his life after diagnosis

MARK CORONE - three years out from ADT and Da Vinci with ED problems

TERRY ALLEN - battling a rising PSA after surgery, salvage IMRT and ADT

BOB COLEMAN - the third man in as many days who reports total incontinence after surgery

MARKMAL402 - battling the side effects of Lupron


JOHN VIG - positive report one year after surgery with a link to information about ED

GEORGE HARDY - PSA down a tad this month – still of medications

ROGER GRIGG - failed surgery, but his story shows the difference between Australian and US practice

DENNIS MOORE - five years after HIFU in Europe – no PSA, no side effects
ERIK LEISURE - very positive report six weeks after laparoscopic surgery

JEROME FINNELL - no change in PSA in two years of WW


All the best

Terry in Australia

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