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Chris Hughes and Stella [that's Suzy, not Stella in the pic] live in New Zealand. He was 62 when he was diagnosed in October 2003. His initial PSA was 6.1 ng/ml, His Gleason Score was 3+3= 6 and he was likely staged T1c. His choice of treatment was Active Surveillance. Here is his story:


I was diagnosed in Oct 03, when my PSA was 6.1 ng/ml. My DRE was negative and one needle of the eight in my biopsy was positive with what was aaid to be 'low grade?'. The urologist wanted me on table in three days, but I said no. After getting all sorts of abuse from my MD, I changed MD.

After biopsy PSA went to 14.1 ng/ml , but settled back to 11.5 ng/ml. I tried Iscador injections, Budwig, etc.

In August 2004 I started on Prostasol, and my PSA dropped to 0.5 ng/ml in three months. I reduced Prostasol and changed supplements monthly. I tried HP8 and PC Hope but reverted back to Prostasol as soon as PSA rose above 3.0 ng/ml.

In September 2006 I started almost strict diet - no sugar-dairy-animal fat, recently had some low strength Prostasol, also was out of stock for three weeks, currently trialling Prostate-Res. Using various suppleiments tumeric, ellagic, zinc, Selenium, Vitamin E, K2SO4, Vitamins A+C+E multi, iron, + one or two others, also on 8mg warfarin [ DVT runs in the family] My current PSA is 10.6 ng/ml.

 

UPDATED

December 2007

 

 

Christmas 07

Chris has a PSA of 2.1 ng/ml amd says :

just using Quercetin + and Prostasol now at 3 or 4 caps / week.

 

UPDATED

December 2008

 

 

At the beginning of 2008 I had an urge to find out what was 'going on' down there. I had been keeping my PSA low with the natural oestrogen in Q+ [2 caps/week]. The nagging question what was happening to the PCa? The only way to find out was a biopsy.

This came back 3 of 10 +, Gleason 3+4, pathological stage T2a. Various scans came back not showing much, but the seed of doubt had been sown, time to be demonstrative, but which treatment? To cut an agonizing journey short I opted for Brachytherapy, at least my self treatment had kept my prostate volume low, 75 seeds were placed on August 23, was back at work the day after, no catheter or leaks, stopped the Flomax after 2 weeks along with the pain killers, absolutely no problems, no leaks , no catheter, nothing.

Just had bloods drawn for the 3 month assessment, everything boringly in mid range, PSA at 4.2. Uro said come back in 6 months for another check. Just have to wait now to see how successful the treatment is.

Chris' e-mail address is: cshughes@ihug.co.nz