This is available today and will help you and your doctor know if additional aggressive action needs to be taken now, rather than after it assuredly gets worse.
“and the information from PET seems to be as reliable, if not more reliable, than biopsy findings and clinical information in predicting which patients will have suboptimal outcome,”
This is absolutely true.
As a result of a PET scan, my prostatectomy was cancelled. It show a slight escape from the prostate capsule to surrounding lymph nodes.
According to the Stanford doctors at the VA Palo Alto med center there was no reason to suffer the inconvenience and recovery from the surgery as it would simply not make a difference.
Straight to ADT for me.
There is NO SUBSTITUTE for the PET scan. Insist on it.
Not even the multi parametric MRI picked up my “leakage”.
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Multiple NIH reports on using Ivermectin in prostate cancer treatments.
Long TMI story, but worth the read for anyone with BPH.
For the last three years, before and after a broken hip, I thought I had an enlarged prostate because I couldn’t pee well. In the hospital for the hip, they prescribed flowmax (tamulosin) which let me pee, but led to other problems, so I generally didn’t take it regularly, but suffered on
Fast forward to three months ago when I started experimenting with some supplements (DHEA, zinc, citrulline, Vitamin D, taurine, d spartic acid). All of a sudden I completely blocked up, even had some blood in the urine. Took Flomax to at least keep from exploding my bladder.
I thought I had over dosed on the supplements, but it turned out I had a big urinary tract infection, which the supplements maybe knocked loose. Two courses of Bactrim antibiotic wiped out the infection, though it also caused huge swelling in the feet with a nasty rash).
So here is where it gets really interesting. Now I can pee like a fire hydrant, and a blood test showed I have a normal PSA reading. So my prostate wasn’t enlarged after all, I’d just had a very long term bacterial infection I didn’t even know about and even a hospital stay didn’t reveal.
I hope this helps some other old fart out there who mistakenly thinks their prostate is as large as a baseball.
On a side note, the swelling in my feet and rash also went away when I started taking an electrolyte drink (one called Skratch, though there are many), so drinking lots of water to cure a UTI may have caused an imbalance.
I hope this helps someone.
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