Jeff
Tait lives in New Jersey, USA. He was 61 when he was diagnosed in November 2007.
His initial PSA was 4.2 ng/ml, his Gleason Score was 6 and he was staged T1c.
His choice of treatment was Proton Beam Therapy. Here is his story.
I
was doing "watchful waiting" for a little more than a year after initial diagnosis
in November 2007. My urologist recommended surgery by him straightaway.
After
another biopsy, a year or so later by another urologist, this urologist suggested
I undergo treatment soon. After much research, I chose to do Proton Therapy at
Jacksonville, Florida.
It took about three months from the initial phone
call to when I actually began the proton treatment. I finished 39 doses of proton
radiation there in March 09, and can say that things went very well for me. I
had few side effects during the treatments, some urinary urgency was about it,
took no pills, and have had no side effects so far. My PSA dropped from 5.0 at
the start to 2.3 at the end of the treatments, and my expectation is for drops
in my PSA reading going forward. So far, so good, all systems in operating condition.
And I am glad to have the cancer out of there, no question about it.
Jeff's
e-mail address is : jeff6235@comcast.net
