Re: Protocel or Cantron

[Guest guest]

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> I started taking Protocel a week ago. PSA 237 Anyone have any luck

> with these?

I believe that it's waste of money and, more important, precious time on

yet another quack nostrum.

See Quackwatch on this stuff at

http://www.quackwatch.org/search/webglimpse.cgi?ID=1 & query=protocel

Regards,

Steve J

" A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe. "

-- Euripides

[Guest guest]

>

> I started taking Protocel a week ago. PSA 237 Anyone have any luck

> with these?

I believe that it's waste of money and, more important, precious time on

yet another quack nostrum.

See Quackwatch on this stuff at

http://www.quackwatch.org/search/webglimpse.cgi?ID=1 & query=protocel

Regards,

Steve J

" A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe. "

-- Euripides

[Guest guest]

>

> I started taking Protocel a week ago. PSA 237 Anyone have any luck

> with these?

I believe that it's waste of money and, more important, precious time on

yet another quack nostrum.

See Quackwatch on this stuff at

http://www.quackwatch.org/search/webglimpse.cgi?ID=1 & query=protocel

Regards,

Steve J

" A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe. "

-- Euripides

[Guest guest]

> I started taking Protocel a week ago. PSA 237 Anyone have

> any luck with these?

Hal,

I'm sorry to hear about your high PSA.

I looked up Protocel on the web and found there is a discussion

of it at Quackwatch, an organization that tracks quack medical

cures. See:

http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/Cancer/cancell.html

It looks like Protocel is a scam, designed to extract money from

your wallet, not to treat your cancer.

I think that it's always a big mistake to take non-FDA approved

drugs unless they're being offered in an FDA approved clinical

trial, which requires that they have shown some evidence that

they might work, are not unsafe, and are being monitored by

qualified doctors.

I also think that if any doctor, or person pretending to be a

doctor, offers you unapproved drugs, stay away from him. He's a

fool at best and a con artist at worst.

I know this sounds harsh, but I'm speaking frankly in the

sincere belief that you're in need of this information.

If you haven't yet been treated with hormone therapy, you need

to get that immediately. If you have, but you've only been

treated with one kind of treatment, you need to try to find a

qualified medical oncologist who can offer you second line

hormone therapies, immune system therapies, and chemotherapy.

As you already know, prostate cancer with a PSA of 237 is

metatstatic and incurable. Unless something else happens to you

first, you will almost certainly die of the disease. However if

you haven't yet exhausted the available treatments you could get

some additional time, possibly as much as several good years.

If you have exhausted all available treatments, you might want

to enroll in a clinical trial of one of the experimental

therapies. The chance of a cure is extremely low, but you might

get some additional time from one of these.

I'd also like to make some other practical suggestions:

Find out what kind of medical support you will need if and

when the disease progresses. Line it up now, while you can.

There are doctors who have a great deal of experience with

cancer pain. Using radiation and the right drugs for the

specific pain the patient has, they can make life tolerable

right up to a very advanced stage. Find out who those

doctors are.

There are hospices that specialize in handling cancer

patients and cancer pain. It might be good to find out soon

what the best ones are that are near you and whether and how

you can pay for them if you need them.

If you haven't put all your financial affairs in order you

should. You should have a good will.

You may know things about your family that no one else

knows. You might want to write things down or record them

on audio or video tape for your children and grandchildren,

if you have any.

If there are things you've always wanted to do, or things

you've always wanted to say to friends and family, this may

be a good time to do and say them.

I wish the very best to you and your family. I hope that the

time remaining to you will be good time, good for you and good

for the people whom you care about. All of us are only here for

a limited time. I hope that you will be able enjoy the time you

have left.

Best of luck.

Alan