New Member - Ron from Texas

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Welcome to Ron from Texas cougar85254

cougar85254@... who has

joined the ProstateCancerSupport

group and who says

Just been diagnosed with Stage I, PSA 5, and Gleason

6. My emotions are all over and no one likes to talk about this. Really need to

talk to people who understand.

Sorry to hear of your diagnosis but welcome to the

club you never wanted to join. No doubt you’re in a bit of a state of

shock, and perhaps feeling isolated. You’ll find plenty of friendly folk

on this List who will do what they can to help you through.

You might find it useful to visit YANA

- You Are Not Alone Now www.yananow.net a site set up for newly diagnosed

people. The first section gives some basic information in plain language with

links to more complex and technical sites. The second section of the site is

where men are invited to tell their prostate cancer stories and how they

arrived at their decisions regarding treatment. Many people have mailed to say

how useful they have found this, especially because most of the men are happy

to respond to specific questions. The section of the site can be found by

clicking the link labelled Experiences or going to http://www.yananow.net/Experiences.html

But in any event, remember – there are no dumb

questions. We all started off where you are now, but we’ve collectively

learned a lot over the years.

One thing you should know is that from what you have

said you have ben diagnosed with what is termed an insignificant tumor, defined

as

1. Nonpalpable

2. Stage T1c

3. Percent free PSA 15 or greater

4. Gleason less than 7

5. Less than three needle cores with none greater than 50% tumour.

One of the options for men with this kind of diagnosis is to

consider what is termed Watchful Waiting in some parts of the medical world,

but ore accurately known as Active Surveillance. There is an excellent article

on the subject on this siter – click on Files at the bottom of this mail

and open Insights AS Article – the fourth entry down.

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. Nov '06 PSA 31.4

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