Editor’s Choice: So much tonight inc 30 gents!!! My choice – maybe the new Dx G4+5 with a suspicious image on L5; or, ECE with just 5mm of G3+4???   (rd)

Topics discussed

New Dx G4+5 with a suspicious mass; MRI shows ECE with tiny amount of G3+4; treating oligoMX the Kwon way; incontinence – do your Kegels!!; Procrit may finally help low blood counts; do stains mask your PSA?; addressing hot flashes; continued success on abi; penile Mx still a puzzle

Chat Log

John Ivory (to Everyone): 3:24 PM: Jim, I found this 5 min. video by the head of the Prostate Cancer Research Inst. (PCRI) in thinking about surgery vs. radiation https://bit.ly/3fSQQ37

Carl Forman (Private): 3:26 PM: just to let Jim know about the patient guide from PCF.org

Jeremy (Organizers): 3:47 PM: Rick, just got back from my second opinion at UCI w Dr. Edward Uchio. They agree that the MRI report is not consistent with the biopsy findings. My UA showed I have a bladder infection. So I’m holding off on surgery and going to undergoe genomic testing and antoehr MRI. Thank god I found you guys.

Geoff (to Everyone): 3:53 PM: Don’t start Lupron before PSMA scan

Jake (to Everyone): 3:54 PM: PSMA – prostate specific membrane antigen

Jake (to Everyone): 3:56 PM: Axumin PET scan

Herbert Geller (to Everyone): 3:58 PM: There is no PSMA PET in Pitt. But there is an ongoing trial at CWRUhttps://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/clinical-trials/search/v?id=NCI-2018-00468&r=1

AnCan – Rick (to Everyone): 4:34 PM: https://www.urotoday.com/video-lectures/prostate-cancer-foundation-2019/video/1593-the-impact-of-vitamin-d-and-statins-on-prostate-cancer-outcomes-lorelei-mucci-and-elizabethplatz.html