Update About My Cancer
SituationSam Ghandchi
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Update About My Cancer
Situation
Sam Ghandchi
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PS 12/15/25: New Finding to Decelerate Cancer Metastasis: I did radiation therapy in Sept and Oct 2021 (i.e. three years after my prostate cancer surgery of Jan 2019). For a year my PSA was zero. Then my PSA was doubling up **every three months** for a year. Then I stopped taking artificial vitamins and used natural sources for my vitamin deficiencies as much as possible. Since that time, the increase of my PSA slowed down and only has been doubling up **every year** during the last three years. I found these results using the PSA measurements every three months for all these years that are recorded as PSA-Results from my medical records. My statistical analysis of the data can be repeated by anybody using my data. I had a PSMA PET SCAN in July 2025 and I was all clean and my last PSA measurement on Oct 3, 2025 was 0.271. I am told when the PSA is low, mass does not get formed easily. If my insurance pays for it, hopefully I will do PSMA PET SCAN every 6 months to check for mass, and if found, depending on the size and type of tumor and the location of it, will need to deal with the mass using cancer treatments available then. I believe the antioxidants of existing artificial vitamins do not work like antioxidants of natural vitamins and unfortunately they accelerate the cancer and unless a new class of artificial vitamins are invented that would work like natural vitamins, replacing them with natural vitamins slows down the cancer metastasis as it happened in my case when using natural vitamins. BTW unfortunately when the PSA is low, Medicare gives hassle to pay for PSMA PET Scan and their policy has hindered using my method because since they do not realize that although my PSA is low I need to detect possible tumors forming to be able to use available treatments to eliminate the tumors on time! In other words lowering PSA using my method does not mean tumors will not form anymore, it only means PSA will not be the tool for checking the possibily of new tumors anymore and regular PSMA PET Scans will be needed! It is also important to note that stopping the use of synthetic multivitamin supplements can cause deficiencies of some vitamins and minerals, yet unfortunately, Medicare does not cover comprehensive tests for vitamin and mineral deficiencies, a knowledge one would need to look for natural foods that contain those vitamins and minerals the patient needs once stopping the intake of artificial vitamins/minerals! I hope the policy makers at Medicare would take a note of these shortcomings in the policies because if what I have observed about cancer metastasis is worth paying attention to, appropriate changes to these policy issues in Medicare can be a matter of life and death for many individuals who are struggling with cancer metastasis! With thanks to all the doctors and healthcare professionals who have helped me with this condition over the past 7 years, especially the two primary care physicians, my urologists and oncologists, all of whom are listed in my medical records, and with best wishes to all. And with gratitude for all the help of my dear friend Dr. Morteza Anvari, especially in the last 5 years that I have been clearly struggling with this metastatic cancer condition, and with best wishes to everyone. Maybe I should have replaced artificial vitamins with natural vitamins right after my prostate cancer surgery in the first place! BTW I need to note as always that I am not a medical professional and all my observations are the thoughts of a layman about my health just like years ago the late Norman Cousins published his observations as a layman!
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PS 05/19/25: Today I read the sad news of President Joe Biden's diagnosis of metastasized prostate cancer and wish him and his family patience and wellness and hope the efforts of President Donald Trump *, Saudi Arabia, Larry Ellison, Sam Altman, Ray Kurzweil, Lifeboat and others to help us all with this deadly and painful disease succeed and we all win together in this crucial battle of life and death for all as soon as possible. SG
PS 02/07/25: A Word About Cancer
PS 11/03/24: Two days ago, I received an AUS (AMS 800 implant). I did it because of continued urinary incontinence that may have been caused by prostate surgery or radiation therapy!
PS 10/13/24: Medical Procedures
PS 10/03/24: My PSA was 0.16 on 10/03/24! My previous PSA 17 days ago on 09/16/24 was 0.191. So apparently in the last 17 days my PSA has dropped 3.1 percent! Although I am still experiencing PSA values above 0.1 but when increases happen, they are at a much slower rate than the doubling-up every 3 months I was experiencing 2 years ago before I started on my new strategy which has discontinued the doubling-up for two years since I stopped the intake of artificial vitamins!
PS 09/27/24: Cancer breakthrough finally maps how deadly tumors spread through the body
PS 09/16/24: My PSA was 0.191 on 09/16/24. My previous PSA 4 days ago was 0.12. So apparently in the last 4 days my PSA was increased 7.1 percent!
PS 09/16/24: Taking antibiotics for 6 weeks fixed my H. pylori issue.
PS 09/13/24: What I am Learning Again While Fighting Cancer
PS 09/12/24: My PSA was 0.12 on 09/12/24. My previous PSA three months ago was 0.129. So apparently in the last three months my PSA was unchanged!
PS 08/10/24: I had an Endoscopy/stomach biopsy 12 days ago and the test showed that there is H. pylori bacteria in my stomach but I do not have stomach cancer. I don't know since when I got infected with this bacteria, but maybe the reason I got prostate cancer in the first place was because of this bacteria! Anyway, by taking antibiotic for 6 weeks, this bacteria should be removed from my body!
PS 07/12/24: Dear Readers, If you are concerned about cancer, you may want to read cancer-related posts on Quora Digest. Some of them contain useful information and are interesting comments!
PS 06/15/24: My PSA was 0.129 on 06/13/24. My previous PSA three months ago was 0.106. So apparently in the last three months my PSA has increased 2.3 percent. It is still good that it has not doubled, which was my case two years ago before I dropped the artificial vitamins, and now I have slowed down the increase to around 2% every 3 months, but still my PSA passing 0.1 for 9 months means a redline that I need to think about choosing a treatment soon!
PS 03/22/24: It seems to me the solution to fight cancer is not by going back to living in the caves and we have to solve the problem by continuing the progress thru working on solutions like mRNA which worked for fighting the Corona virus and may work well for Cancer as well! I mean mRNA solutions similar to the ones offered by Pfizer and Moderna ** that have been very effective to fight COVID-19 Pandemic! SG
PS 03/09/24: My PSA was 0.106 on 03/07/24. My previous PSA three months ago was 0.07. So apparently in the last three months my PSA has increased 3.6 percent. It is good that it has not doubled which was my case a year ago before I dropped the multivitamins, but my PSA passing 0.1 means a redline that I need to think about choosing a treatment soon! Actually during the last 3 months, not only I avoided taking multivitamins but went all natural and even avoided Vitamin D supplements that not only I used to take for years because of working at night but also because Vitamin D is particularly needed for cancer patients! As far as doing PSMA PET Scan, because of side-effects, I may still wait till PSA reaches 1, 2 or 5 before considering it. Also I am diabetic and in the last 3 months, did not take my diabetic medications, Glucose level is now 3 times the acceptable number and it was even 2 times before dropping my medications, and my A1C which was good (5.7) has now doubled and affected my eye sight, and this situation is another reason for more increase of my PSA this time, because increase of blood sugar increases PSA antigen! I am now back to taking my diabetic medications as before. BTW as I wrote before, I am not a doctor or a biologist and am not recommending any of these experimentations that are noted here. Please do not do any of these or any other medical experimentations without checking with your doctor first. As far as my cancer, I am going to wait and see what my next PSA in 3 months will be! We will see! All the best, SG
PS 12/17/23: Dostarlimab, Me and Cancer
PS 12/02/23: I just received my latest PSA results. It was less than 0.07 on 11/30/23. My previous PSA three months ago was 0.06. So apparently in the last 3 months my PSA has not doubled and increased only 1 percent which is good news but is still increasing! Maybe stopping to take multivitamins has slowed down the doubling-up-every-three-month trend more, which I had observed for 9 months till 6 months ago! I keep my current diet avoiding multivitamins and will see what happens in another 3 months! The PSA increase of the last 3 months is still bad news; but, the slow-down of the increase is good news! We will see! SG
PS 11/02/23: Dostarlimab, Me and Cancer
PS 08/19/23: I just received my latest PSA results of yesterday. It was 0.055 on August 18th. My previous PSA three months ago was 0.038. So apparently in the last 3 months my PSA has not doubled and was just 1.7 percent which is good news. Maybe stopping to take multivitamins has slowed down the doubling-up-every-three-month trend, which I observed for 9 months! I keep my current diet avoiding multivitamins and will see what happens in another 3 months! The PSA increase of the last 3 months is still bad news; but, the slow-down of the increase is good news! We will see! SG
PS 08/11/23: Loss of Y Chromosome in Men Makes Bladder Cancer More Aggressive
PS 07/31/23: The problem for people like me is about how to stop cancer from metastasizing!
PS 07/23/23: Dear Friends, My new tests show my cancer is coming back; but the side-effects of PSMA PET Scan are worse than how I feel now and I will wait for PSA to reach 1, 2, or 5 before making that decision! In the last 9 months, my PSA doubled every 3 months and it was .038 on May 11th. My next measurement will be on Aug 18th and will see how it goes. SG
Dear Friends,
My UTI-like pain went away after I drank a lot of water and did cystoscopy last month but my urinary
incontinence continues which is not a big deal. My PSA stayed at less than
0.01 undetectable which was great ever since I did radiation/hormonal therapy two years ago when my
prostate
cancer
had returned 2
years after my robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy of January 2019; but, in the last 6 months, again, my PSA
has doubled up every three months! The value is not at a dangerous level yet (it
is now at 0.04) but if the doubling-every-three-month-trend continues, it can
become very dangerous. I check PSA every three months as I always do.
For now I have stopped taking multivitamins again, like I did when I started
radiation therapy 2 years ago, to eliminate from my system, the antioxidants originating
from multivitamins, so that cancer cells do not get repaired by
those types of antioxidants, which seems like they protect cancer cells from being
destroyed by the immune system, in contrast to antioxidants in natural foods
like meats and
vegetables, that apparently function differently in human body meaning that the
natural antioxidants only repair normal cells and do not repair cancer cells
(my assumption about
antioxidants in multivitamins may be right or wrong but this is the basis of my
strategy to deal with my cancer)!
Hopefully this strategy will help to slow down my PSA rise, I do not know, but
this is what I have decided to do and we'll see the result, and of course I will have to
make up for any vitamin/mineral deficiencies by taking individual
vitamins/minerals and by simply food! If despite all these steps, my PSA again reaches 0.1 and rises above 0.1
like it did three years ago (although at that time the cancer had not
metastasized and was localized in the
pelvis area, whereas this time perhaps I will have to deal with metastasized prostate
cancer possibly in the bones, lymph nodes, feet), and maybe then will need to use
super-hormonal therapy or other procedures, I do not know! At this time,
stopping the intake of multivitamins has
already made me very weak but this is the strategy I have chosen:) We'll see how things will progress!
I am sorry that I still do not know when I can become
active again on the Internet! Wishing everyone the best!
Hoping for a democratic and secular futurist
republic in Iran,
Sam Ghandchi
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June 1, 2023
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