{"id":528,"date":"2013-05-10T15:24:34","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T20:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prostateblog.com\/?p=528"},"modified":"2013-05-10T15:24:34","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T20:24:34","slug":"where-did-april-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.prostateblog.com\/?p=528","title":{"rendered":"Where Did April Go?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prostateblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/what-advice.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.prostateblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/what-advice.jpg\" alt=\"what-advice\" width=\"300\" height=\"147\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-530\" \/><\/a>Studies too numerous to count continue the \u201c<strong>drum beat<\/strong>\u201d regarding the \u201cProton\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It really is too bad that salesmanship by a sharp salesperson can defeat many accurate findings for medical success to the detriment of those who may have vital need for the treatment. My friends and I who have really been cured by using the \u201cProton\u201d feel like we have not explained our experience adequately.<\/p>\n<p>I thought mine was very simple:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>PSA 15.6<\/li>\n<li>Surgery recommended by my \u201cUrologist\u201d who never mentioned any other option.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>This accident that brought me in touch with a Graduate from college in California who said: \u201cGet the doctors at Loma Linda to treat you with &#8216;Protons&#8217;, that\u2019s the answer!\u201d He told me that he graduated there and believed that the Proton would do the job.<\/p>\n<p>So in August 1999 my Proton treatment was over and my PSA since that time has remained at 0.1. I deem this fact to be significant given the painless and professional capability at the Loma Linda Proton Center.<\/p>\n<p>I do wonder how the John\u2019s Hopkins folks will respond when their new Proton center becomes reality and the current IMRT really gets compared with the Proton in their own Medical Center.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime my Texas Drivers License expires in 2019 and I suppose that at eighty-nine years old I may not be too worried about how medical issues are resolved.<\/p>\n<p>For now, all I can say is \u201cI liked it!\u201d 12 plus years later!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Studies too numerous to count continue the \u201cdrum beat\u201d regarding the \u201cProton\u201d. It really is too bad that salesmanship by a sharp salesperson can defeat many accurate findings for medical success to the detriment of those who may have vital need for the treatment. My friends and I who have really been cured by using [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.prostateblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.prostateblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.prostateblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.prostateblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.prostateblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.prostateblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":532,"href":"http:\/\/www.prostateblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions\/532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.prostateblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.prostateblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.prostateblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}