Hi-Risk/Rec/Adv PCa Video Support Recording, Aug 24, 2021
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No meeting next week in the 5th week of the month, but we have two webinars:
Managing Your Medical Team – 8.00 pm Eastern, Tuesday, 8/31 Register at https://bit.ly/3jGNN1V
A Layman’s Guide to Medical Research Language , Wednesday, 9/1 at 8.00 pm Eastern at https://www.gotomeet.me/AnswerCancer ; no pre-registration required.
Editor’s Pick: Drug holiday suddenly becomes an option ….. yes or no?? (rd)
Topics Discussed
Low PSA, hi Gleason man goes through many treatments; who to see now Dr. Alicia Morgans has moved on; considering Intermittent Hormone Therapy; recurrence rears it’s head – Dr. M has moved on; “I’m mCRPC” – what does that open up?; Provenge; carcinoembryonic marker …. for PCa?? ; handling neuropathy; one of our regualars faces shoulder surgery
Chat Log
Dell (to Organizer(s) Only): 3:09 PM: Off Eligard since Dec 2020, PSA less than 0.1 and with a rising testosterone. Last week the TS was 369 and this was the first increase in PSA to 0.5. Just looking to know who is the new recommendation for Chicagoland (Northwestern) with Dr Morgans gone.
Joe Gallo (to Everyone): 3:12 PM: A drop-in presentation sponsored by the AS group. Open to all on a drop in basis at Barniskis. First Wednesday program scheduled for 8-9:30 p.m Eastern on September 1, 2021 is titled “A Layperson’s Guide to Reading Medical Research” Aurora Esquela Kerscher, PhD, is an associate professor of microbiology and molecular cell biology and a prostate cancer researcher at Leroy T. Canoles Jr. Cancer Research Center, Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Virginia.
Larry Fish (to Everyone): 3:15 PM: where those spots all on Prostate – or had it already spread. So why radical prost…
Joe Gallo (to Everyone): 3:16 PM: Also a webinar Webinar: Managing Your Medical Team on Tuesday August 31st at 8:00-9:30 pm ET. Register now: https://bit.ly/3jGNN1V Larry Fish (to Everyone): 3:20 PM: chemo?
Herb Geller (to Everyone): 3:20 PM: Genetics?
Paul Freda (to Everyone): 3:20 PM: What was the name of that Firmagon oral substitute ? Anyone ?
Herb Geller (to Everyone): 3:20 PM: Orgovyx
John Antonucci (to Everyone): 3:21 PM: AKA relugolix
Joe Gallo (to Everyone): 3:21 PM: Daily pill
Stan Friedman (to Everyone): 3:21 PM: genetic testing?
Larry Fish (to Everyone): 3:23 PM: So what is he doing now – exaCTLY? what trials? chemos? ADL? exercise?
AnCan – rick (to Organizer(s) Only): 3:27 PM: Kelly may be good BUT how come no chemo???
Larry Fish (to Everyone): 3:28 PM: wow – pretty knowledgeable! how is his Quality of life now?
Pat Martin (to Everyone): 4:05 PM: Any doubling time
AnCan – rick (to Everyone): 4:07 PM: Pylarify 18F DcfPyl PSMA test. Made by Lantheus …. https://pylarify.com
Pat Martin (to Everyone): 4:12 PM: I’m sorry for my ignorance…in the Northwest we have a Tri-Cities but no Quad-Cities. What are they?
Herb Geller (to Everyone): 4:13 PM: I just looked it up. It is a group of cities on the Illinois-Iowa borde
Pat Martin (to Everyone): 4:14 PM: Thanks
Les Schjelderup (to Everyone): 4:15 PM: That is where I live also.
Pat Martin (to Everyone): 4:19 PM: My experience…25 months of ADT Lupron and Abiraterone. Had a vacation of several months. PSADT was 1.5 months and had an Axuminn scan to pinpoint the problems. Then went back to ADT, Eligard and Abi. Way fewer side effects and better energy.
John Ivory (to Everyone): 4:19 PM: Thanks Pat
Jake Hannam (to Organizer(s) Only): 4:35 PM: oral chemo? cyclophosphamide? not a taxane – mght work for him with lower PSA than mine
Jim Ward (to Everyone): 4:42 PM: Can someone spell the name of the report that was referenced, beginning with a “k”?
John Antonucci (to Everyone): 4:43 PM: caris
Jim Ward (to Everyone): 4:43 PM: Got it – thanks!
AnCan – rick (to Everyone): 4:43 PM: Caris ……. it’s a competitor to FMI
Paul Freda (to Everyone): 4:47 PM: How to spell lutecian ? Anyone ?
Len Sierra (to Everyone): 4:47 PM: Lutetium
Herb Geller (to Everyone): 5:04 PM: I gotta go soon
Stephen Saft (to Everyone): 5:07 PM: I am 6’5″ and 225lbs and ask about this all the time. It is mostly ignored by the Drs i have spoken to. Doesn’t make sense to me.