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Post by Tony Crispino on Oct 28, 2014 8:38:23 GMT -8
Dr. Paul Schellhammer is a former president of the AUA and a leading authority on prostate cancer. He is also a survivor of a now metastatic PCa. Linked here is a presentation I saw him give and we will have him do here. Without his commentary this is a tough slide deck to go through but an experiences PCa patient should be able to follow it. Paul Schellhammer Slide DeckDrs. Schellhammer and Lange operated on each other years ago. They have had vastly differing results. Lange is doing great and Schellhammer not so great. I first met Schellhammer in 2008 so you can see a lot has changed since then. Stay tuned for an upcoming presentation from him here. |
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Post by Tony Crispino on Oct 28, 2014 9:35:39 GMT -8
One interesting point is that Paul Schellhammer is telling us about his journey, you'll see he started screening himself at 50 which was the guideline at that time. And even with annual screening and monitoring by one of the very best in the business, he is in a fight for his life. Some 17 years later. He had no positive margins or indication that his disease was aggressive.
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Post by lupronjim on Dec 5, 2014 18:35:04 GMT -8
Did not realize there would be so many presentations and skimmed at end.
First one seemed to validate Snuffy Myers' use of estrodial patches.
Was looking to Paul's dire prognosis but did not find it.
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Walt Shiel
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Post by Walt Shiel on Dec 27, 2014 8:23:11 GMT -8
Sometimes, you can do everything right yet it seems everything goes wrong. Probably because our diagnostic tools remain inadequate, in my opinion. Although they are getting better, if not widely available yet.
I have an orthopedic surgeon who is a great guy. He's in his mid 50s and absolutely refuses to have any PCa screening of any kind. He says he just doesn't want to know. We've had some discussions about it, but he is adamant that he'd rather die from it than have any kind of treatment.
When I was diagnosed last year, I hadn't had a PSA in 14 years. No real point in looking backwards and wishing I had been getting regular tests, but sometimes I do anyway. Can't change the past, only deal with the present as best we can.
I'm going to review those slides. Thanks for sharing them.
Happy New Year!
Walt
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