Kenneth
Dowd and Ani live in Batam Island,
Indonesia. He was 72 when he was diagnosed on December 19 2001. His initial PSA
was 48.0 ng/ml, his Gleason Score was 3+4=7 and he is uncertain of his staging
- if this was because of his elevated PSA, he would have been staged T1c. His
choice of treatment was EBRT (External Beam Radiation Therapy) plus ADT (Androgen
Deprivation Therapy). Here is his story.
THERE
WAS NO RESPONSE TO AN UPDATE
REMINDER
IN 2011
SO THERE IS NO UPDATE.
Initially,
my biopsy indicated ten malignant cores out of twelve, from a bulky tumor which
occupied most of the prostate.
I elected to receive radiation for seven
weeks , followed by one year's Casodex 50mg per day , with Lupron injection every
three months. At the end of the year , the PSA level was almost undetectable
However
three years later the PSA was rising by ten points every three months , to PSA
56.
Casodex would then reduce the level to about PSA 10 , and after three
months it then rises to 50ish again.
Now, nine years later, this continues
, apparently without metastases. I consider myself fortunate to be still alive,
although with gynecomastia , psoriasis , and no money , as cancer has taken all
my savings , and I struggle on a UK fifty pounds a week pension , and work in
a Bar as manager, in a small town in far-away Indonesia , at age 81.
