Originally Posted by
ApachePhil
Active Surveillance is enticing, but given my age, 49, I don't know. There are no numbers/data for such age and I am curious as to the number of contrasted/nuclear scans a guy can have before getting heavy metal diseases. Right now it is a tool for time until such time I discover a treatment that I can stomach.
It’s not that information isn’t available, it’s that it’s sort of a philosophical issue depending on the philosophy of the patient. Like some people put money in stocks and some put money in bonds. The same answer isn’t necessarily “right” for two people, even with identical pathology.
As for the contrast/nuclear scan and heavy metal disease issue, that I CAN reassure you about. I used to fly radioisotopes and Technetium-99m generators through the mountains at night in ancient piston twins older than I was. Diagnostic isotopes are actually pretty benign. The brachytherapy “seeds” require a little more caution.
https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/...s-201605279667
https://www.urotoday.com/conference-...veillance.html
https://www.urotoday.com/conference-...sease-con.html
https://www.urotoday.com/conference-...sease-con.html
Originally Posted by
ApachePhil
Do you guys know if the FAA would balk at non-FDA approved procedures performed in Europe? Tho, FLA/HIFU are now approved, and I believe TULSA PRO trials have been completed and rumored to be available "soon."
As long as you are metastasis free, I’m pretty sure they aren’t going to care. If you aren’t met free, you have bigger problems than the FDA.
The company that owns the rights to TULSA-PRO is promoting it heavily, but so did the company with the rights to OxyContin, and look how that turned out. But there are a few ongoing trials that you may meet inclusion criteria for if you want to be a guinea pig. The problem is you can’t get data on five year follow up for...well, five years, so ....well, you see the problem.
https://www.urotoday.com/clinical-tr...te-cancer.html