Update About My Cancer
SituationSam Ghandchi
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Update About My Cancer
Situation
Sam Ghandchi
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PS 11/03/24: Two days ago, I had an AUS installed. I did it because of continued urinay 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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