Re: A quick summary of my battle with [prostate] cancer, from my web page

On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 16:29:26 -0400, J <nexsw@nvalid,anon> wrote:

JoeC wrote:

Sept 10/06 bleeding/clots PSA 0.06
Small tumor in bladder causing bleeding and clots - cauterized but did not
remove the tumor.Through bladder wall and top area of ilium
Yup

Nov 29/2006 cancer confined to left pelvic area
Switch to Etoposide and Cisplatin. How many treatments?
1/3 dose for 3 days. Repeated about every 4 weeks for total of 4
treatments - tough stuff!!

Feb 21/07 There is a soft tissue mass in left lower pelvis with expansion
and destructive of the left superior and inferior pubic rami and invasion
of left acetabular measuring approximately 7.0 x 10.0 x 7.2 cm. There are
no hypermetabolic lymph nodes. Evaluation of the musculoskeletal area
reveals no metabolically active areas.
Impression: destructive left superior and inferior pubic rami and invasion
of left acetabular lesions non-hypermobilic

4 weeks of daily IMRT (weekends off) - estimated 50-60 units total 1.8
grey?
55.5 I think

Scans clear since. Next meeting July 17th with urologist.

So Joe,
Rather than do more surgery on your bladder the two mentioned (above) are one
and the same and it was treated with chemo, followed closely behind by IMRT and
it's disappeared?
I had one 4 hour surgery to remove all cancer found. Then it came back
6 mos later and that is when my urologist thought an oncologist should
step in and the oncologist gave me taxotere/avastin (for 3 mos) but
that did nothing so he then switched to cisplatin/etoposide and that
did work (3 mos of each regiment). After 2nd regimen, petscan
showed nothing so as a precaution, IMRT was done and petscan stills
show no cancer so we hope that is the end of it. I am now also taking
a nutrition approach as improper nutrition gave me cancer so now
I hope good nutrition will boost my immune system to fight it better
now and also prevent it from coming back over the long term

Joe

Steph might understand all this, but since I'm a layperson and follow along,
with certain posters from the prostate cancer newsgroup, and some of your lymph
nodes were involved, and you've had 2 regimens of chemo, I'd like to keep this
straight in my mind. Or maybe he'll clear this up for me?

I did today (get to) see the 2- page pathology report from the original surgery
but none for this (or these?) tumors, on your webpage.
Thank you.
J
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