Terry and WW

[Guest guest]

I want to thank Terry for " pushing " WW. I have learned a great deal from

him. I am more conservative than he is and I tend toward more

coventional treatment but I see the value of WW especially for men with

an apparent low risk disease. Since so much with PCa is " mushy " I

beleive that men who chose WW should closely moniter their disease with

frequent testing and repeat biopsies. If the situation chnages then they

should be prepared to seek a more invasive treatement. It is a gamble

but then even tradional treatement is a gamble. The article that I

posted today that looked at WW, radiation and surgury found that men

who chose WW lived a shorter life. Many men might be willing to trade

an improved QOL for a shorter life. WW can be very stressful for some

men and in fact that stress could cause problems with their QOL so that

choice would not be for them. Terry you seem to have adjusted to the WW

stance without that stress. If you feel that you are being picked on by

me it is only because I care. I do not want to lose my WW mentor.

Totally off subject. Yesterday I went to a VPCC meeting at Dr. Myer's

home. On the drive home through Charlottesville I stopped at the The

Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia.

http://www.virginia.edu/kluge-ruhe/index.php?p=about I had no idea what

Aboriginal art looked like. It was fascinating with images made with

dots and dashes. Thought about Terry in Autralia while I walking around

the museum.

Kathy Meade