Name of lab that can distinguish between slow growing and rapidly growing?

I understand that there is one lab in USA that can distinguish between
slow growing and rapidly growing? Could you email its address to me?
Thanks! TimEastonPA@yahoo.com

Tim, I have no idea what you are talking about. Do you? :-) Your were
Dx'd over 5 mos. ago w/ PSA of 23, 12/12 samples malignant, and G.S. 7
- I think you should assume you have a serious case and you need to get
on w/ it.

Bill Denton
RP 2/12/02
PSA 1.10
Memphis

"Bill" <zerospam@midsouth.rr.com> wrote in message
news:1168440800.750924.303850@i56g2000hsf.googlegr oups.com...
> Tim, I have no idea what you are talking about. Do you? :-) Your were
> Dx'd over 5 mos. ago w/ PSA of 23, 12/12 samples malignant, and G.S. 7
> - I think you should assume you have a serious case and you need to get
> on w/ it.

Bill is right Tim. I'm not a doctor, but it seems to me
that if those numbers he cites are right, your
window of opportunity for treatment is closing fast. Get
treatment NOW. Don't dither over whether this condition
is dangerous or not. It is dangerous. Treatment can be
nasty, but it's not anywhere nearly as nasty as prostate
cancer.

The only real issue for you now is not whether you need
treatment, but whether you can get it in time or whether it's
already too late.

Alan

You're both right! The lab, by the way, is Bostwick, in VA

My PCP is recommending against IMRT so will go with robotic DaVinci
soon, due to a rare genetic blood disease that could prevent cell
damage from repairing; a disease that killed my twin sister 23 years
ago.

Thanks,

Tim


Alan Meyer wrote:
> "Bill" <zerospam@midsouth.rr.com> wrote in message
> news:1168440800.750924.303850@i56g2000hsf.googlegr oups.com...
> > Tim, I have no idea what you are talking about. Do you? :-) Your were
> > Dx'd over 5 mos. ago w/ PSA of 23, 12/12 samples malignant, and G.S. 7
> > - I think you should assume you have a serious case and you need to get
> > on w/ it.
>
> Bill is right Tim. I'm not a doctor, but it seems to me
> that if those numbers he cites are right, your
> window of opportunity for treatment is closing fast. Get
> treatment NOW. Don't dither over whether this condition
> is dangerous or not. It is dangerous. Treatment can be
> nasty, but it's not anywhere nearly as nasty as prostate
> cancer.
>
> The only real issue for you now is not whether you need
> treatment, but whether you can get it in time or whether it's
> already too late.
>
> Alan

Tim wrote:

> My PCP is recommending against IMRT

When half (?) of even the urologists discussed here seem clueless or
nearly so, there's no way I would let any PCP have much more to do with
my prostate cancer beyond, "Your PSA is rising. Get a biopsy."

I.P.

Tim wrote:

> You're both right! The lab, by the way, is Bostwick, in VA

> My PCP is recommending against IMRT so will go with robotic DaVinci
> soon,

Tim, is your PCP trained and a board member of some cancer
association?

Hell, when even urologists can't agree on treatment plans, how can a
PCP
dare make recommendations in a field which he/she has no specialised
training/education?

Tim wrote:
> You're both right! The lab, by the way, is Bostwick, in VA
>
> My PCP is recommending against IMRT so will go with robotic DaVinci
> soon, due to a rare genetic blood disease that could prevent cell
> damage from repairing; a disease that killed my twin sister 23 years
> ago.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tim
>
>
> Alan Meyer wrote:
> > "Bill" <zerospam@midsouth.rr.com> wrote in message
> > news:1168440800.750924.303850@i56g2000hsf.googlegr oups.com...
> > > Tim, I have no idea what you are talking about. Do you? :-) Your were
> > > Dx'd over 5 mos. ago w/ PSA of 23, 12/12 samples malignant, and G.S. 7
> > > - I think you should assume you have a serious case and you need to get
> > > on w/ it.
> >
> > Bill is right Tim. I'm not a doctor, but it seems to me
> > that if those numbers he cites are right, your
> > window of opportunity for treatment is closing fast. Get
> > treatment NOW. Don't dither over whether this condition
> > is dangerous or not. It is dangerous. Treatment can be
> > nasty, but it's not anywhere nearly as nasty as prostate
> > cancer.
> >
> > The only real issue for you now is not whether you need
> > treatment, but whether you can get it in time or whether it's
> > already too late.
> >
> > Alan