Radiation may boost prostate cancer survival

Seeded on Sun Jun 6, 2010 3:03 PM EDT (msnbc.com)

Treatment helps men live longer than with hormones alone, study says

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Where's Waldo

The results show that "radiation is an indispensable element in the treatment of patients with high-risk prostate cancer," said Dr. Jennifer Obel, a cancer specialist at Northshore University Health System in suburban Chicago who had no role in the study.

What type of Radiation, MARILYNN MARCHIONE???? It would be nice if the author would fill in the blanks a little better! I have a family history of Prostate Cancer. Maybe if someone with chips in the game had written the story, I wouldn't be left wondering................

#1 - Sun Jun 6, 2010 3:42 PM EDT

V. Bevis

Waldo: I too would also like more info. on dosages (rads), how long, etc. I just received an email from a friend I keep in touch with & asked her how her husband was doing as he had had prostate cancer along with a ruptured back disc & another problem. She told me he was "Burned" "Down there" indicating that either he was mistreated or possibly another problem. Either way, this article was "woefully" in adequate.

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#2 - Mon Jun 7, 2010 12:08 PM EDT

Where's Waldo

V.Bevis: A recent article on line, a few weeks ago, focused on the problems Cancer victims are having with RADIATION OVER EXPOSURE by Hospitals and other heath care facilities. it's been determined that people are being over exposed by faulty equipment; equipment either not calibrated properly or poorly "set" for the patient's needed exposure or technicians NOT properly trained and/or re-certified to set up these machines properly. people have died from EXTREEM overexposure resulting in actual burns and subsequent radiation poisoning of the body.

Also i am a proponent of women's health issues but I would prefer that articles such as these be written by men who have a stake in the game. the article was poorly written.

#2.1 - Tue Jun 8, 2010 1:02 PM EDT

godofredo29

And, if my mother had wheels she'd be a wagon. Qui potest capere capiat.

#3 - Mon Jun 7, 2010 1:14 PM EDT

Where's Waldo

the article left out important facts..........wheels on your mom or not.......

#3.1 - Tue Jun 8, 2010 1:24 PM EDT

Mourning the Lost

I wish the Drs. would have discuss and emphasised the more important facts- the risk factors of receiving radiation treatment. My father in law died from chronic leukemia related to radiation treatment. Small percentage I thought until my neighbor received the same treatment for prostate cancer (in the same year) and has been diagnosis with chronic leukemia (with a remaining life expectancy of 2 1//2 year). Yet my father in laws death certificate states liver failure. Why doesn't it say chronic leukemia? His prostate cancer was a slow growing type- the Dr. said it would kill him in 10 years. The family worried about it becoming more aggressive and we wanted to make sure he would be with us more than 10 years. 10 years seem like an eternity compared to the 2 1/2 years we had after he received his radiation treatment.

#4 - Fri Jun 11, 2010 11:02 AM EDT

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