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Your webmaster's grandfather, father and step-father have prostate cancer.

Pete's grandfather is about to undergo a new chemo treatment; if it's not successful he'll only be with us for another six-twelve months.

If you're a male over 40, please have a PSA blood test. Caught early enough, prostate cancer is 100% curable. Save a life.

And please remember Pete's grandfather, Bob Nelson, in your prayers. I wish you could all have someone as wonderful as Bob in your life.

My own father went through the nerve sparing treatment last summer...he is 52 and has an excellent bill of health. Only a manditory physical by his labor union alerted him of this....If I am half the man my father is, I will be something...Thank you so much ma'am for bringing this to attention. This is nothing to take lightly, I wish Petes stepfather, and grandfather the best of luck...This can be beaten...

Chad

Thanks Weasel Mama, my grandfather died from it and my dad has it. He had the radioactive seed implant and is doing fine. I had a PSA last week and will have one annually from now on. If the males in your family have a history of this don't wait until you are 40 to get a PSA do it sooner. There is no need to die from this treatable cancer. The key is in early detection.

Fender
Hands clear. All switches off, safe or normal. Gun hot or cold? No limit, you bet.

And very survivable. I have known many patients who do to their age and other considerations, this was not a big deal for as long as it was monitored by a physician. Definitely not an automatic death sentence.

Thanx for the heads up miss.

"If we are not victorious, let no man return alive."

Gen George S. Patton

GOOD TOPIC MAMA WEASEL,MY FATHER-IN-LAW HAS IT NOW AND IT WAS CAUGHT TO LATE,SO HE OP OUT OF TREATMENT
I'VE BEEN OUT OF POCKET GOING THRU THE TESTING .PSA AND COLON--------- WHATEVER IT WAS,I JUST KNOW SOMEONE CHARGED ME FOR IT. LOL

BUT I DID FIND OUT SOME INFO ON PROSTATE CANCER,
IF YOUR A MALE,YOU GOING TO GET IT,BUT MOST MEN DIE OF OTHER THINGS BEFORE ITS FOUND OR SHOW SIGNS OF IT.
WITH TODAYS MEDICINE ITS BEING DETECTED EASIER AND EARLIER.

AND THEY REALLY DONT KNOW WHY THE PROSTATE GLAND IS THERE.
SO ALONG WITH YOUR PSA,FIND OUT ABOUT A COLON SCREENING. ITS EASY AND YOU WONT REMEMBER A THING.

DETECTIONS IS THE BEST PREVENTION


PRESS TO TEST

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I'd like to add a story from our support group (alt.support.cancer.prostate)and ask <b>all of you out there to convince one man over 40 to have a PSA and DRE test</b>:

<i><font color=yellow>I stopped going to the Cancer Centre every day with Ron for his radiation treatments......not entirely sure why (G). Most of the people were upbeat and interesting. But the odd one got to me and I tried to remain detached.

But I met a man today that broke my heart. He is 53 and his wife told me a lot of the story, but he did as well. I had noticed that she seemed upset and started talking to her as it was obviously their first radiation visit and I thought I could help them as they seemed a bit overwhelmed.

He never went to doctors.......but he was in pain and his wife finally convinced him to see her family doctor. The doctor thought it might be a hernia......so told him to wait a year and see how it goes. And you know what is coming.

T4......PSA 2400......in the bones of course. They gave him 12-18
months. But we talked for a while and he was quite open about it. The shots brought his PSA down to 200.....he was happy about that. The radiation is for several hot spots as the pain was debilitating. Chemo didn't work terribly well. He said he was depressed for a long time, but has accepted it now and has some 'serious living' to do.

How awfully sad. She almost broke down as we were leaving and told me that Ron was so lucky that he had a doctor that recognized it. We live in the same City btw.....just outside Toronto.

Writing this is a sort of catharsis I guess.....but makes me even more determined to tell every man I meet to get the damn DRE and PSA tests done. He didn't even know what they were till now. His brother and son have now been tested and are OK.

There has to be a concerted effort to make every man aware!!
It is not a US or Canadian problem......it is global. I have a Pap
smear and mammogram every year.....why don't the doctors make the male tests mandatory from 40 on.

Thanks for reading this......for some reason this man really hit
home.....more so than any stories or websites. Looking into his eyes and listening to him was so heartwrenching. Looking into hers was worse.</i></font id=yellow>

Knowing that your sysop's grandfather is facing the same battle brings this story home for me. Spread the word; save a life.

Thank you.

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Real men know their PSA