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JimJimJimJim
- May 15
- 1 min
Lutetium-177, plus ipilimumab and nivolumab
The trial is called EVOLUTION. This trial is adding to Lutetium-177 treatment, two immunotherapy drugs - the checkpoint inhibitors...
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JimJimJimJim
- Apr 17
- 1 min
Sex and long term hormone therapy
Two things I can confirm from experience (high dose rate brachytherapy boost 12 years ago plus lots of hormone therapy): Your 'old...
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JimJimJimJim
- Apr 17
- 1 min
What is a 'small tumor'?
In a paper about expected survival based on, among other things, average tumor length: "Whereas the median tumor length for Gleason...
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JimJimJimJim
- Apr 17
- 1 min
Younger men don't have different treatment choices
It is said by some doctors that younger age of diagnosis should affect the choice of first treatment. But looking at the results of...
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JimJimJimJim
- Apr 17
- 1 min
Misleading - radiation first then not surgery second
People often get the story wrong. Treatment if the Prostate Cancer returns is called salvage treatment. The most common salvage treatment...
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JimJimJimJim
- Apr 17
- 1 min
JimJimJimJim's treatment summary
In 2009 I was diagnosed with a large aggressive prostate cancer. It filled the right side of my prostate, where all the samples were...
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JimJimJimJim
- Apr 16
- 1 min
Medicare will pay for PSMA scans if ...
This is my attempt to clarify the rules for PSMA PET/CT medicare coverage. I am not a doctor. A man may be entitled to Medicare coverage...
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JimJimJimJim
- Apr 16
- 1 min
Gallium-68 PSMA PET/CT accuracy vs PSA
A PSMA PET/CT scan can detect prostate cancer at very low levels. Indeed, when PSMA first became available, and not much was known about...
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JimJimJimJim
- Feb 1
- 10 min
Hormone therapy (ADT, Androgen Deprivation Therapy)
I am not a doctor. This is just what I have gathered trying to help me understand my disease and my treatment options. Your doctor knows...
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JimJimJimJim
- Oct 18, 2021
- 1 min
36 World leaders compare treatments
hormone therapy vs radiation vs surgery No one has done a head-to-head study to decide which is best and when. So, a group of thirty six...
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JimJimJimJim
- Sep 2, 2021
- 1 min
Don't stop abi or enz too soon
A number of doctors advise that a man should get as much benefit as he can from each treatment before he moves onto the next. Zytiga...
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JimJimJimJim
- Aug 20, 2021
- 1 min
Hormone therapy (ADT) and Covid
Testosterone suppresses the immune system. Males have more testosterone than women. So women have stronger immune systems than men. When...
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JimJimJimJim
- Jun 2, 2021
- 2 min
Zytiga (abiraterone) vs Xtandi (enzalutamide) for advanced prostate cancer
Background Prostate cancer feeds on male hormones. The main male hormone is testosterone. Below I use 'testosterone', but I mean all the...
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JimJimJimJim
- Jun 2, 2021
- 2 min
Intermittent hormone therapy
also called intermittent Androgen Deprivation Therapy also called intermittent ADT Definition Taking breaks in hormone therapy...
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JimJimJimJim
- Jun 1, 2021
- 2 min
Chemotherapy - when to use it
Taxotere (Docetaxel), Jevtana (Cabazitaxel), Paraplatin (carboplatin) My summary of the YouTube interview of Dr Evan Yu by Dr Mark Moyad...
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