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Jim JimJimJim

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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...
    3 views0 comments
    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...
    2 views0 comments
    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...
    1 view0 comments
    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...
    5 views0 comments
    JimJimJimJim
    • Apr 16
    • 1 min

    Medicare will pay for PSMA scans if ...

    In short: Medicare (Australia) will pay for one PSMA scan after diagnosis, before you have any treatment, if you are intermediate risk or...
    13 views0 comments
    JimJimJimJim
    • Apr 15
    • 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...
    8 views0 comments
    JimJimJimJim
    • Jan 31
    • 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...
    167 views0 comments
    36 World leaders compare treatments
    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...
    34 views0 comments
    JimJimJimJim
    • Sep 1, 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...
    35 views0 comments
    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...
    26 views0 comments
    JimJimJimJim
    • Jun 1, 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...
    316 views0 comments
    JimJimJimJim
    • Jun 1, 2021
    • 2 min

    Intermittent hormone therapy

    also called intermittent Androgen Deprivation Therapy also called intermittent ADT Definition Taking breaks in hormone therapy...
    82 views0 comments
    Chemotherapy - when to use it
    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...
    117 views0 comments