Why not surgery? was...... Donating money to prostate cancer associations

[Guest guest]

Surgery is not the best option for all men

diagnosed with prostate cancer. In some cases, where the disease has spread

beyond the capsule and has metastasized – spread into other parts of the

body – the removal of the gland can, according to some experts,

accelerate the rate of growth of the distant metastasized tumors. In other

cases surgery may not be the best option because of aspects of the man’s

health which would make this option a greater risk than the disease itself. In yet

other cases, the disease may be so small and slow growing that surgery is

simply not required at all.

This is a complex disease and the best

doctors recommend that as much investigative work be done as possible before

deciding on a course of treatment. To quote Dr “Snuffy” Myers. As a

physician, I am painfully aware that most of the decisions we make with regard

to prostate cancer are made with inadequate data. If you go along to http://www.yananow.net/newbyadvice.htm

you may get some idea of what Donna Pogliano

feels is a reasonable start to investigation.

All the best

Terry Herbert

in Melbourne Australia

Diagnosed ‘96: Age 54: Stage T2b: PSA 7.2: Gleason

3+3=6: No treatment. June '04: TURP. June '06 PSA 24.3

My site is at www.prostatecancerwatchfulwaiting.co.za

It is a tragedy of the world that no one

knows what he doesn’t know, and the less a man knows, the more sure he is

that he knows everything. Joyce Carey

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Sent: 07 August 2006 02:53 PM

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Subject: Re: Re: Donating money to prostate cancer

associations

Please explain.

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> Not all men have that choice of removal of prostate to make it all

> better......................

[Guest guest]

Terry

I suppose this is a practical way of looking at it.

It doesn't allow for those who mentally feel that they must take (good job I read this back, take had been typed as talk, though many urologists could do this well) out the offending bit of flesh. All we ask is that they stop, get all the information, think hard and then decide what they want to live with.

There is a view that for a tumour that is fully contained in the capsule surgery may be the only certain way of getting rid of all stem cells - but then ... there are other issues - if only we knew 100% where all the PCa cells were. We only have a 75% chance of knowing at the moment!

B

PS The talk thing reminds me about a story I have recently seen a sleeve for a CD about English about a Panda

Panda goes into a public house, orders a bar meal and sits downa and eats it. The panda then shoots the landlord and leaves the premises. This perplexes a bystander who asks his friend what it was all about. He says look in the wildlife reference book - he looked up Panda and sure enough it said (Pandas eats shoots and leaves - what a difference a comma makes!

Why not surgery? was...... Donating money to prostate cancer associations

Surgery is not the best option for all men diagnosed with prostate cancer. In some cases, where the disease has spread beyond the capsule and has metastasized – spread into other parts of the body – the removal of the gland can, according to some experts, accelerate the rate of growth of the distant metastasized tumors. In other cases surgery may not be the best option because of aspects of the man’s health which would make this option a greater risk than the disease itself. In yet other cases, the disease may be so small and slow growing that surgery is simply not required at all.

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