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Re: Re: SIGNS THAT LUPRON IS LEAVING - FDA approval and all
Terry,
As an aside to your comment on Lupron Depot. My education was as a Nuclear Engineer, and I did a lot of studies in radiation physics & health physics. It is my opinion that the doses given during EBRT are not what is needed to kill prostate cancer, but are the maximum doses that will not kill good, healthy cells. Hence, the reason the EBRT treatment dose continues to rise as more experimental data is accumulated. Toward the end of the 3rd week of my pelvic cavity rd tx, I was experiencing a clear mucus discharge, with my BM's. When I told the oncologist that my colon & rectum were being dosed, he at first said no, but then said yes, but not much. I think that the colon dose was larger than he knew. I had done some reading of victims of atomic blasts and when they died with in 30 days, it was because the colon had received sufficient dose to stop digesting food, and a resulting discharge of heavy clear mucus.
That's a very interesting reply, albeit from an 'alien' : ) I too have found it very difficult to find results of long term studies on the effects of Zoladex/Lupron, and many other treatments.
And, like many others, I read news of cyberknife treatment with some awe. Guess It's too easy to swallow all the 'hype'.
I never realised that the FDA had gone against Casodex in 150 doseage. In my own case, the oncologist immediately gave me Casodex 150 when I asked to come off Zoladex a year earlier than planned.
So far it seems his decision was the right one for me,
and if I had been limited to Casodex 100 then perhaps my outcome may have been far different.
Many thanks for all your efforts in keeping us abreast of happenings in the medical field, particularly in regard to PCa.
