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Becoming immune to Zoladex
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Simon Brentford Jul 3.
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Thanks for the info Steve. He is having this test done next week and thanks Mike this drug was also suggested. So fingers crossed, my father is making a good step in the right direction.
Mike S wrote enthusiastically about Prostasol.
The decline in PSA, if attributable to nothing else, was likely the result of the undisclosed diethylstilbestrol (synthestic estrogen) in the stuff. This was reported by Danish medical authorities in...
After my PSA rose to 15 after having my prostate gland removed, I started using a product called Prostasol. After two months my PSA was 0.2. That was almost four years ago. My last reading taken last month was 0.1. You can buy it from several site...
I'll just add this:
The purpose of the LHRH agonists Zoladex (goserelin acetate), Lupron (leuprolide acetate) in its various guises, and Trelstar (triptorelin pamoate), is to suppress production of testosterone in the testes.
Seems to me that, i...
Simon: It's still early here in the USA, and the west coast hasn't even thought about today yet. You'll get lots more replies over the next 24 hours. I'm just one of the world's early risers! :O)
Many thanks for your prompt reply. This gives me some new places to research.
Anyone else with some ideas / opinion?
Regards, Simon
Dear Simon:
Patients like your father, who are treated with LHRH agonists like Zoladex, will, after variable periods of time, often stop responding to these agents. It's not so much that they become "immune" to them as that the proportion of horm...
Hello,
I have been advised to come here cancerforums.net. I am writing here for the first time on behalf of my father (age 72). The long and short of it is that I think he is becoming immune to his Zoladex injections.
I am looking for other peop...
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