hope a good specialist in the field is looking after the boy.

Since it has spread to distant organs treatment has to be fast and intensive with a multi-pronged approach of drugs, radiotherapy and surgery as well.

u pl get pronto to the best specialist u can get and and do not delay treatment.
survival depends on the type of cancer, extent of spread and response to treatment.

wish the boy all the best.

I’m only 19 years old and he’s 51. He still has two little girls to graduate high school and I’m frightened that he won’t be around. Please offer stories and/or comfort.

I have worked in a Urologists office for about 3 years now. We have many patients that have been diagnosed with prostate cancer. There are many treatment options out there, from surgery (robotic prostaectomy) to hormone treatment (radiation treatment). Think positive, your father is probably feeling down about things himself right now, i would try to stay as positive as possible. especially for your younger sisters.

To determine a Gleason score the biopsied tissue samples are run through a microscope to determine where the cancer is the most prominent (the primary grade) and then where it’s next most prominent (the secondary grade). the two grades are then added together to get the final gleason grade.
A score of 7 indicates that the cancer is moderately aggressive.

check out the website attatched it is very informative.

Often with early prostate cancer that is still confined to the prostate gland the Dr may just wait and watch since often prostate cancer progresses very slowly. There are a variety of treatment options from radiation, implanted radioactive seeds, surgery, anti-androgen therapy and many more options depending on the size and location of the prostate cancer.

Here are some good web pages that discuss your various treatment options and their side effects.

http://familydoctor.org/online/famdocen/home/common/cancer/treatment/264.html

http://www.prostatecancerfoundation.org/site/c.itIWK2OSG/b.1420081/k.93C6/Side_Effects.htm

http://www.cancer.org/docroot/NWS/content/NWS_2_1x_Prostate_Cancer_Treatment_Side_Effects_Impact_Mens_Outlook.asp

http://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20080319/life-quality-after-prostate-cancer

Read up at these sites and then add additional info about your age and disease staging and I will try and answer any specific questions that you might have.

all the best

NCI: Designated Cancer Centers

http://cancercenters.cancer.gov/cancer_centers/cancer-centers-list.html

You might also ask other people with this disease where to go and what the best treatment might be:

Prostate Cancer Foundation

http://www.prostatecancerfoundation.org/

NCI: Prostate Cancer

http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/types/prostate

ACOR: The Prostate Problems Mailing List

http://listserv.acor.org/archives/prostate.html

good luck

Love is omnipresence, Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.

difficulty in starting to pass urine
a weak, sometimes intermittent flow of urine
dribbling of urine before and after urinating
a frequent or urgent need to pass urine
pain when passing urine
rarely, blood in the urine
erectile dysfunction

Treatment

Active monitoring
Surgery
Radiotherapy
Hormone therapy
Chemotherapy
Cryotherapy
Ultrasound

If your friend continues to choose that route, the best thing to combat radiation is GREEN TEA. You can get an extract of green tea that is very powerful and each tsp. is equivalent to 20 cups of green tea, but without the caffeine and fluoride. Typical green tea is loaded with fluoride and that depletes the body of iodine.

I have two basic suggestions for your friend that may help him. The first, is to look at his front teeth, in particular 2 upper and 2 lower. If any of those have infection, trauma, etc. that has a huge potential for being the root cause of the prostate issue. He will need to see a REAL dentist, not the guy down the street that is using the typical "standard of care" dentistry and still believes amalgam fillings are safe. As an aside just for your own enjoyment and education on this issue, watch this video:

http://www.milldental.com/millennium/webvideo/MercuryDanger/SmokingTooth_200k.wmv

The next thing I would do is get the book called, "Cancer can be cured" by Father Romano Zago. Once you have read that book and you want to follow it, I know a company that is producing the product and people are actually being helped, unlike the radiation and chemo that allows the root of the problem to continue and the body to deteriorate while they try to treat the cancer itself.

EDIT: Wow, the "don’t eat or drink antioxidants" post is quite alarming and completely against any advice given by real experts. Doctors have no clue what they are talking about in regard to nutrition and just ask yourself, what gets rid of free radicals in the body? Antioxidants. To limit your intake of that is to allow free reign of free radicals and to limit your intake of antioxidants not only promotes disease, but but shortens your life!

The other post referring to Green Tea inhibiting the effect of chemotherapy is correct. Green Tea protects the body against radiation and toxins. A now released study of the Japanese people that went through the radiation from the bomb in WWII showed that the people that drank over 20 cups of green tea per day did not have the radiation poisoning that people who did not drink the tea.

In 1972, according to the American Cancer Societies own figures, 33% of cancers had a five year survival rate. We should also point out that at that same time 33% of cancers went away on their own.

Today, according to the ACS, the five year survival rate for cancer has risen to 40%.

However, what they do not tell you is that

1.The statistics are invalid because they combine data of both local and metastasized cancers; and that the comparisons are not randomized [Ulrich Abel, Advanced Epithelial Cancer", 1990 (no longer in print) ]
2.Cancers not factored into the original statistics are now factored in, such as skin cancers, many of which are not fatal and that the statistics are purposely inflated by including people with benign cancers.
3.Technology has helped us to find cancers earlier, thus the survival time from diagnosis to eventual death has lengthened.
4.They are now including in their stats non deadly skin cancers.

We pride ourselves in America for being technologically advanced and that our technology is rooted in a foundation of good science. Wrong. When it comes to medicine, little at all is based upon science. Again we shall point to the Office of Technological Assessment’s paper: Assessing the Efficacy and Safety of Medical Technologies in which we are told that fewer than 20% of all medical procedures have been tested, and that of those tested, half were tested badly.
Medicine in America is not about healing.

When you are diagnosed with cancer, you are suddenly worth $300,000.00 to the cancer industry. Most telling, according to Ralph Moss in his book Questioning Chemotherapy, is that in a good number of surveys, chemotherapists have responded that they would neither recommend chemotherapy for their families nor would they use it themselves. Dr Dan Harper, reported about an unpublished cohort study in which it was revealed that only 9% of oncologists took chemotherapy for their cancers.

Irwin Bross, a biostatistician for the National Cancer Institute, discovered that many cancers that are benign (though thought to be malignant) and will not metastasize until they are hit with chemotherapy. In other words, he’s found that many people who’ve been diagnosed with metastatic cancer did not have metastatic cancer until they got their chemotherapy. For many cancers, chemotherapy just does not improve your survival rate. Some of these are colorectal, gastric, pancreatic, bladder, breast, ovarian, cervical and corpus uteri, head and neck.

Knowing this, oncologists still recommend a regimen of chemotherapy.

When President Reagan had his colon cancer successfully removed by surgery, his health was reported daily as he recovered. On his return to work, a spokesperson appeared, proclaimed him cured, and that was that. However, very nearly every patient who undergoes surgery for colon cancer gets put on chemotherapy afterwards. Why not President Reagan?

Dr. Charles Simone, who today handles cancers with diet and lifestyle changes was hired on as the president’s personal oncologist. The public never learned of this because the good doctor, was stuffed into a grocery truck and made his entrance into the white house through the backdoor where deliveries are made. When questioning some top oncologists in the country, their were a lot of questions presented to them, one of them being: “Knowing the odds of successful outcome using chemotherapy are nil in many cancer cases, why do you continue to prescribe chemotherapy?”

The answer was this: “We give it to patients so they won’t give up hope and fall into the hands of quacks.” Quacks? Implicit in the definition of quackery is the sale of worthless or dangerous nostrums for profit. Who exactly are the quacks here?

If a person dies during a chemotherapy study, that information is NOT included in the write up because the patient did NOT complete the study. This is NOT good science, but it seems our medical industry hides behind white coats and when you have a lot of BIG money to spend, first it’s easy to spend other people’s money and second, money doesn’t talk, it SCREAMS.

To fight cancer, as any disease, if you attack the disease itself, you are treating symptoms and chasing it instead of confronting the "root cause" of the problem. It is more than obvious that doctors have NO clue of how the body works and are practicing medicine (that is administering drugs) instead of concentrating on making that person healthy.

Chemotherapy is simply destructive, costly, and ineffective in the majority of cancer victims. Like the oncologists, I would not subject myself to that insanity, but that is me who is working tirelessly to make people healthy and does NOT treat diseases, but focuses on promoting health.

good luck to you