Comments on: My husband was diagnosed with Stage IV metastatic prostate cancer in September 2006 with a PSA of 3400! Treatment with Eligard broght PSA to .7. However, at 18 months PSA began to climb again.. Adding Casodex helped stabilize PSA for another 6-7 months. When that failed he began ketaconazole which helped for another 8-9 months. He is now consider hormone refractory. He began taxotere with prednisone 5 weeks ago. At 3 weeks his PSA had not dropped, but in fact had risen from 18 to 29. Complicating all this, about 15 months ago he suffered a severe bout of bacteremia which left him with a vegetation on his pulmonic valve. The fear of chemo was that the bacteremia would recur. This morning he is suffering chills and rigors, a clear indication that the bacteremia has recurred. What options are left?

Comments on: My husband was diagnosed with Stage IV metastatic prostate cancer in September 2006 with a PSA of 3400! Treatment with Eligard broght PSA to .7. However, at 18 months PSA began to climb again.. Adding Casodex helped stabilize PSA for another 6-7 months. When that failed he began ketaconazole which helped for another 8-9 months. He is now consider hormone refractory. He began taxotere with prednisone 5 weeks ago. At 3 weeks his PSA had not dropped, but in fact had risen from 18 to 29. Complicating all this, about 15 months ago he suffered a severe bout of bacteremia which left him with a vegetation on his pulmonic valve. The fear of chemo was that the bacteremia would recur. This morning he is suffering chills and rigors, a clear indication that the bacteremia has recurred. What options are left? http://prostatecanceradvice.org Prostate Cancer Prognosis, Questions and Answers Tue, 05 Jan 2010 06:25:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3