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Staying Alive 20 More Years

Post a new topicby livingwith on Thu Mar 19, 2009 8:03 pm

I am now 59 going on 60. In March of 2006 after ten years of monitoring a varying PSA level from 4.0 to 29, I finally agreed to a prostate biopsy (This is your hazing into the world of prostate cancer it does hurt..). Over the previous ten years I had tried everthing from Saw Palmetto to Lycopine to keep the PSA level down.
Ultimately, on March 15th, 2006, my urologist gave me the news that with a PSA reading of 22 and two spots of 6 and 7 on the Gleason scale, I indeed had prostate cancer I ...Read the full article
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