{"id":533,"date":"2013-06-13T19:10:24","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T00:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prostateblog.com\/?p=533"},"modified":"2013-06-13T19:10:24","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T00:10:24","slug":"still-going-strong-after-14-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.prostateblog.com\/?p=533","title":{"rendered":"Still Going Strong After 14 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2006 when Bob Marckini published his book, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/us\/en\/shop\/robert-j-marckini\/you-can-beat-prostate-cancer\/paperback\/product-728701.html\">You Can Beat Prostate Cancer, and You Don\u2019t Need Surgery to Do It<\/a><\/span>, I said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I found Loma Linda and Proton treatment by \u201cBlind Luck\u201d. Bob removes the blinders and offers sound advice for those who hear the dreaded \u201ccancer\u201d word.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After treatment in 1999, I decided to tell anyone who would listen about both my experience and the experiences of others I met who were treated with \u201cProtons\u201d. I also sought where possible provide responses from others who chose \u201cProtons\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Marckini deserves the highest accolades for his dedication to providing advice and his continuing research to verify any responses he provides. I suggest you read his book now!<\/p>\n<p>So at 83 I can say that my experience has been amazing and successful. And as 84 approaches, I expect to continue looking at the number of \u201cProton\u201d facilities that have been built in the US and in other countries and read their reports when possible.<\/p>\n<p>I regret the recent loss of \u201cKen Venturi\u201d as a friend, and miss his advice both as a professional golfer and Proton advocate.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for reading. Take a look at the many \u201cVideos\u201d on this site \u2013 I always learn a lot from them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2006 when Bob Marckini published his book, You Can Beat Prostate Cancer, and You Don\u2019t Need Surgery to Do It, I said: I found Loma Linda and Proton treatment by \u201cBlind Luck\u201d. Bob removes the blinders and offers sound advice for those who hear the dreaded \u201ccancer\u201d word. After treatment in 1999, I decided [&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":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.prostateblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533"}],"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=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.prostateblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":536,"href":"http:\/\/www.prostateblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions\/536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.prostateblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.prostateblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.prostateblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}