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A couple of weeks ago visiting friends asked me about my attitude and I said cautious. I did not want to be positive to the point of being over optimistic. I recognize that I could be on borrowed time and that this has been a "wake up call".
(In the United States, cancer of the prostate is a common malignant cancer in men, second only to lung cancer. About 200,000 new cases are diagnosed each year, and about 30,000 men die of the disease each year).
I have never smoked and maybe had a glass of wine a day, but now I hardly drink and am eating more healthily. I appreciate being alive and really would love to see the trees that I have lovingly grow much larger. There is a particular plant that I have vowed that I will plant in my garden, one for every further year that I am allowed to enjoy here "Cotinus Coggyria (Royal Purple)". On reflection maybe I should have written a blog during my 40 sessions of treatment? The treatment was not painful, but the after effects have only just receded, the treatment having finished on 5 December 2006.
The staff at the University Hospital of Malaga Carlos Haya were marvelous, as were my fellow patients, so much so that tears came to my eyes as I drove away after my last treatment as I listened to Nelly Furtado´s - In Gods Hands, - Wait for You and All Good Things (come to an end). They could not have given me a better Christmas present and I am so grateful to the Spanish Social Security. My treatment, as promised had started within 2 months of being diagnosed, ok one day earlier and since that date I have read that they are going to bring this down to one month in the future in their fight against this disease.
Whilst undergoing treatment I did quite a bit of research and decided to publish a page on the pomegranate and its use against prostate cancer.
Yesterday my oncologist was pleased with my progress the PSA having come down to 0,17% from 0,21% three months earlier so my next control will be in 6 months time. Obviously there will be a control for the next four and a half years.
Did I have any prostate problem symptoms? No it was just a regular annual blood test and keeping on top of my health that brought the problem to light. The highest PSA in 2005 was 8.4% but the tumor was not malignant.
With 3 months medication it had been brought down to 4% but after 3 months without medication it had risen to 6.3% by July 2006 - T2a and a Gleeson Value of 5 were the results of a biopsy. All were surprised by these results known in August 2006.
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