Section 1 - The Basic Knowledge

What Prostate-Help Offers

Question? Contact Don Cooley

Don Cooley - Who Is He?

Donation Information

Copyright & "Legal Stuff"

Prostate-Help Search Page

• Test Freefind

Physician "Artists" of Excellence

• Brachytherapy (SI) Doctors

• Cryo Surgery Doctors

• Gleason Expert Pathologists

• Medical Oncologists

• Urologists / Surgeons

• Color Doppler Ultrasound Experts

Veterans Page

• It is your right as a Veteran!

• Agent Orange - Were You Exposed

• Download Files of Interest

Abbreviations, Acronyms and Glossary

PCa Tables, Tests, Markers and Scores

• Prostate Cancer Statistics

• Probability of Having Prostate Cancer

• AUA Categorization of Your Symptoms.

• PSA - Variances in Results

• Clinical Utility of the PSA

• Causes of PSA Fluctuation

• Iodine and Palladium Seed Decay

• Prostate Gland Volume and Diameter

• Life Expectancy Tables

• Markers and Tests for PCa

• PAP Additional Information

• Fats that Heal, Fats that Kill - Wil de Jongh

• Posters, Papers, Presentations and Studies - John Fistere

• Staging "T" Designations

Gleason Information and Partin Tables

• Gleason Grading

• Variants of Prostate Cancer

• Gleason Experts

• Partin Tables - 2001 (1997)

• Partin Tables - Ralph Valle Comments

• Partin Tables - 1997

• Johns Hopkins Surgery Nomogram - 2003

Section 2 - On the Way to Diagnosis

Information You Need to Know

• When is good enough "GOOD ENOUGH" for YOU

• Things You Should Know and Have

• The Sins of This Industry

• Studies and the Past

• How To Talk To Doctors

• Breakthroughs - What is Real What is Not

• Understanding Drug Development

At the Beginning

• New Patient Information

• Danger - Hormonal Flare

• Higher PSA's Caused by Inflammation

• Prostatitis - Effect on PSA

Step By Step - Your Education

• Step 1 - Join the Gang

• Step 2 - Give Us Information, Please

• Step 3 - On To Treatments

• Step 4 - Alternatives, Diet and Other Information

• Step 5 - Picking your Doctor

• Step 6 - Searching for Information

Prostate Cancer - Are You Diagnosed?

• The Prostate and its Cancer

• Questions To Ask

• The PSA is an Excellent Tool - IF!!!

• Free PSA - Studies

• PSA and its Varience

• What do you mean - I have a high PSA

• Take Your Time

• Finding PCa with Dr. Fred Lee

• NSAIDs, Statins and Prostate Cancer

• NonSteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs (NSAID) in the Treatment of PCa

Section 3 - The Treatment Modalities

Advanced PCa, Chemotherapy, HRPC

• Bisphosphonates, use, precautions, etc.

• Advances in Treatment of Metastatic Prostate Cancer

• BA - Antiangiogenesis and Chemotherapy

• BA - Thinking Out Of The Box

• BA - Chemotherapy For Hormone Refractory Prostate Cancer (HRPC)

• BA - Chemotherapy for HRPC - Part 2

• BA - Chemotherapy for HRPC (3)

• BA - Treatment Options for Men with Advanced Prostate Cancer Progression

• BA - Can Chemotherapy Extend Survival for Hormone Refactory Prostate Cancer Patients?

• BA - Combined Hormonal Ablation/Chemotherapy for High Risk PCa

• BA - Peripheral Neuropathy and Chemotherapy

• BA - Taxol or Taxotere?

• BA - Calcitriol

• BA - Epothilone B

• BA - Velcade: The Magic Bullet for Cancer?

• BA - Seminar Urologic Oncology

• BA - The 1st International Prostate Cancer Congress

• BA - ASCO Abstracts Summary 2002

• BA - AUA Abstracts - 2003

• Chemo for Hormone Refractory

• Taxotere/Emcyt - One Man's Story

• Chemotherapy Drugs

• Chemo Therapy - The Diary of Len Snyder

• Patient Trial of Naltrexone Hydrochloride

• HRPC by Bob Benson

• Proposal a First Treatment of Advanced Cancer

Brachytherapy / Seed Implants

• Watch out for the "Weekend Wonder"

• Androgen Deprivation Therapy in Brachytherapy

• The Side Effects of Brachytherapy

• Radiation and the movement of the prostate.

• Treating Large Glands

• How To Choose Your Brachytherapists

• Brachytherapy study by Grado

• Brachytherapy Studies by Stone

• Ragde Studies, Changing Definition of Failure

• Ragde or Blasko - Who is Right

• Staten Island Results - a comparison

• The PSA bounce following Brachytherapy

• SI as a mono treatment

• Palladium Seeds - What the studies show.

• ASTRO Definition of Failure - Caution

• Alan Lasnover, MD - Questions for his Brachytherapist

• Sex after SI/EBRT

• Antioxidants and EBRT/SI

• Quality of Life after Brachytherapy

• New Guidelines for Brachytherapy 1999

• Radiation Safety Parameters with Seeds

Clinical Trials

• Clinical Trials - Should We Participate?

• Importance of Clinical Trials

Cryo Surgery (Freezing)

• The Bahn et al Cryo Report

• Large Cryo Trial

• Cryo Studies

High Dose Radiation (HDR)

• Conformal HDR at Wm Beaumont

• HDR Studies

• The Radiation Bounce/Bump

Hormonal Ablation Treatment

• Conference on Hormonal Ablation Therapy - 2002

• Hormonal Therapy - When is it Useful?

• The Current State of Hormonal Therapy

• Overview and Consensus - 1

• Overview and Consensus - 2

• Intermittant Hormonal Therapy

• Management of Advanced Prostate Cancer

• Estrogen Treatment for PCa

• Coming Out As A Eunuch

• A Survivor's Review

• Why Hormones Don't Cure

• Casodex 150 as an immediate therapy?

• Side Effects From Hormonal Therapy

• Study of Studies on CHB

Radiation Therapy (External Beam)

• Radiation of the Prostate - A Picture

• D'Amico Study on RT and HT

• EBRT as a Mono Treatment

• Importance of PSA nadir

• External Beam Radiation - A comparison

• A Rad is a Rad

• EBRT with or without CHB Study

• EBRT with or Without CHB - 2

• Proton Beam at Loma Linda

• Proton Bean at Loma-Linda # 2

• IMRT - Is there an advantage!

• Importance of high radiation doses

• Risk of Second Cancer

• The Radiation Bounce/Bump

Salvage of a failed local treatment,

• Brachytherapy as Salvage

• RP Following Failed Radiation

• Salvage Discussions

• EBRT Salvage of RP

• Radiation Therapy After Radical Prostatectomy

Surgical Removal (RP) of the prostate

• Who Should/Should Not Have Surgery

• Long Term Prognosis of RP's

• Johns Hopkins Surgery Nomogram - 2003

• Pre-Surgery Nomogram - 5 yrs

• Five Year Disease Progression Projections

• Surgical Nonograms - Walter Reed

• Prostatectomy and Short Term Hormonal Therapy

• Lowering PSA Cutoffs

• The Gold Standard???

• Natural History Of Progression

• Signs of PCa after RP

• Recurrence Rates Following RP

• Two Factors Predict RP Outcome

• PAP used for RP and failure

• PSA Rising After Surgery

• Early or Delayed Hormonal Therapy Following RP

• Neoadjuvant Hormonal Ablative Therapy Before Radical Prostatectomy: A Review. Is it Indicated?

• Hormonal Ablation Before Surgery

• Extracapsula Extension and RP's

• RP, Incontinence and Kegels

• Impotence And Urinary Incontinence - RP

• Stamey and Cause of Failure of RP

• Viagra after radical retropubic prostatectomy.

• Impotence at 88%, Incontinence at 33%

Watchful Waiting

• Watchful Waiting - When and Why

• A Watchful Waiters Saga

• Watchful Waiting and Losing

• WW - a Doctors Story

• Bouncing PSA for 5 years

• Terry Herbert - Conserative Management

• WW - Serial PSA's? and Personal Choice

Section 4 - Other Items of Interest

Recipe's For Prostate Cancer Patients

Diet, Vitamins, Supplements

• Alternative Treatments and the Immune System

• The Role of Diet, Vitamins & Supplements

• Antioxidants - what are they

• Vitamins C and E Good for Us

• Selenium - a good supplement

• Vit. E and Selenium by Dr. Myers

• Genistein - Is it all its made out to be?

• Lycopene and Tomatoes

• Fat - What kinds are good and bad

• Dietary Inhibitors of Prostate Cancer

• Mis-information About Diet and Supplements

• Soy and Tofu

Drug, Supplements, Herb Interaction - Dangers

• Herbs And Drugs: Never Mix, Never Worry

• Graphfruit Juice - Caution Please

• Herb-Drug Interactions - Mayo

• Diabetes: Beware Chinese herbs

Incontinence and Impotence

• Incontinence Control Clamp

• Diapers Be Damned

General Prostate Cancer Papers

• How to Stop Rectal Bleeding

• Pumpkin Seeds Solves Urination Problems

• Angiogenesis - A Man and His Mice

• Angiogenesis

• Cell Tutorial

• Curcumin Study by Wil de Jongh

• Curcumin - Wil de Jongh Chart

Insignificant Cancer

Genetics

• Web Page about Genetics

• Collection of recent MEDLINE abstracts on Genetics

Books on Prostate Cancer

• Jon O. Durre "PLEASE GOD, Not Prostate Cancer"

• Richard A. Leahy "Prostate Cancer Survival Decisions"

• Genetic Testing can change your life.

• Aubrey Pilgrim's "A Revolutionary Approach to Prostate Cancer"

Newsletters For Prostate Cancer Patients

Writings on life, death and cancer.

• The median isn't the message

Fighting the Battle - Personal Stories

• Alan Lasnover, MD

• Rip Rinehart

• Frank LaMarca

• Ben Bunn and An Elusive Miracle

• Duane Chelenza

• Steve Redding

• My Story of George Orick

• Charlton Heston Letter

• A Man Who Lives Life!!!

• Hard Drive

• A Shared Experience

• "Ski" the Clown of Clowns

• "Today I Cried" by Don Cooley