Stopped Casodex, PSA rising sharply vague symptoms Opinions?

cyclone · New User Joined: 14 Jul 2006 Posts: 2

I was diagnosed with prostate cancer in October 2005, suspected metastasis. Treatment began about two weeks after I received diagnosis, in mid-November, starting Casodex (50mg) followed in a few days by Lupron Eligard 30mg, four months. At time of second Lupron injection in March, urologist told me to stop Casodex, after finishing one 30-day supply, third week of April 2006.

After suspending Casodex medication, PSA started to rise, as follows:

November 2005 - April 2006, very low PSA all below 1.0
April 20, 2006 -- 0.6
May 22, 2006 -- 1.6
June 21, 2006 -- 5.9
July 12, 2006 -- 13.7

What does this mean? Was the decision to stop Casodex the wrong decision?

Opinions? Please advise.

bruce kopitz · Regular Joined: 07 Sep 2007 Posts: 10

Hello. My name is Bruce Kopitz. I am 57 years old. I began experiencing rising PSA in the mid-1990's. Biopsies were unable to confirm cancer, so watchful waiting was recommended. However, it is generally believed that prostate cancer escapes the sheath when it's analogue, the PSA number, rises above 10. My number was approaching 10, so I became very uncomfortable.

I researched options. I didn't want the "Gold Standard" of that time, or prostatectomy, because of the many recorded instances of incontinence, sexual incapacitation and recurrence of cancer. Radiation, at the time, seemed like a Pyrhic exercise. I began using an herbal product called PC-Spes (Spes is Latin for hope). My PSA dropped to below 2 and stayed there. The product was quite expensive, which was a burden, but it worked, and UNLIKE HORMONE THERAPIES, YOU NEVER - REPEAT NEVER - BECOME REFRACTIVE. You may have read a posting here by someone, Steve I believe is his name. He calls PC-Spes a fraud, apparently without ever taking it. Number One, it worked. Number two, it WAS contaminated, with trace amounts of naturally occurring Warfarin (an FDA controlled substance). Steve claims that the contaminants were the reason it worked. If so, I say take it BECAUSE of the contaminants! However, Warfarin is a blood thinner and has no PSA-reducing potential. Warfarin was NOT the reason PC Spes worked. It worked because the herbal complex (which, interestingly, was originally developed by court herbalists for the last Mandarin emperor in China) ENABLES YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM TO RECOGNIZE CANCER CELLS, AND TO KILL THEM (apostosis). The effect can be startling. Painful metastatic bone sites are rapidly and progressively debulked and absorbed by the body. Cancer everywhere EXCEPT INSIDE THE PROSTATE is destroyed. Inside the prostate, according to the best research on these herbs, the cancer enters into a remission or very slow apoptosis.

The bad news is that the FDA, upon discovery of the Warfarin contaminant, required the immediate withdrawal of PC-Spes from the marketplace (consigning hundreds, if not thousands, of men to their deaths). The GOOD NEWS IS THAT PROSTASOL FROM DR DONSBACK IS A SUPERIOR SUCCESSOR! I know for a variety of anecdotal reasons, aside from available statistics. I used it, before and after my successful 22-hour brachytherapy (my PSA is now .2 five years out). My brother drove his 11 PSA down to 1 (then took wide-beam radiation). My father is on it now. An acquaintance named Bob had a PSA of 512 and was becoming refractory to chemotherapy. After one month on Prostasol, his PSA was 212. By the second month his blood count increased to almost normal, forestalling additional transfusions. Both steroid and Procrit therapy were discontinued because they were no longer needed. There is a European formulation of Prostasol with which I have no experience. I have used, and know dozens of men who have used, Doctor Donsback's Prostasol. You may email me for sources to purchase from.

My prayers are with you!

Bruce

johnw100

Cyclone,

Hormone Therapy: It would be worth reading the book by Dr Myers, "Beating Prostate Cancer: Hormonal Therapy & Diet".
Dr Myer's view is that most men who are diagnosed as hormone resistant actually aren't.
The book gives comprehensive details on hormone treatment, the various tests which should be employed, medication and casodex.
I would consult Dr Myers or someone expert in the field of hormone treatment.

"Prostasol" is part of the treatment used by Dr Pfeifer. He gives details of his protocol at his website clearfeed.com/pfeifer

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