Very disappointing Medical Essay, June 2005 from the prestigious, Mayo Clinic, Subject: Prostate health.<\/p>\n
On page 7, the last sentence of the paragraph on Radiation Therapy that starts with the statement “This is an effective alternate to surgery”, says:<\/p>\n
“However, a newer form of therapy uses protons instead of X-rays to kill the cancer. Protons travel through non cancerous tissue and deposit their radiation dose in the targeted area. This form of radiation is under study at a few medical centers, and it’s anticipated that the use of this technique will increase in coming years.” See excerpt attached.<\/p>\n
This is very incomplete statement and the only acknowledgement of “protons” in this otherwise informative eight page essay.<\/p>\n
Since I just saw Doctor Rossi, on May 17th, started in 1999 with a PSA of 15.9, Gleason 6 and Stage T1C, and now have nothing on the DRE and a PSA of <.1 with five years, 9 months since treatment with no side effects in the last two years, what gives? What is their \"protocol\" for treatment information?\n\nThere are two reports Peer reviewed, from Loma Linda that I have read, and about 7,000 men treated for Prostate Cancer at LLUMC. It would seem that Mayo would get the word that a substantial \"study\" is already completed.\n\nRuined my weekend.\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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