Prostate Cancer: Your Treatment Choices

Good News for Men!

6 CHOICES

Our Doctor Did Not Tell Us About All of Them

Looking Back - I Wasn’t  Worried  

    When my husband, Bill, had a physical exam, his PSA level was 14!  A “normal” PSA is under 5.

    I knew it was high, but Bill had survived serious surgery to remove a growth from his esophagus. He had spent 9 days in Critical Care Heart Unit.     

     I was just so glad to have Bill alive, I DIDN’T WORRY when his blood test showed this high PSA. But, I should have! 

    We were soon to learn that he had Prostate Cancer.

      We Wanted More Information

    Our doctor, an Internist, told Bill that he thought he had Prostate Cancer, but it was a “slow growing” type and he could do nothing. He said Bill would probably live his whole life and never suffer any symptoms of cancer, with no treatment at all.

1. Choice: Do Nothing

    However, he advised Bill to see a Urologist Specialist at a clinic in a nearby town. We went, and the Urologist recommended a biopsy. The results revealed multiple Prostate Cancers. He scheduled more tests.  

   Meanwhile, I sent emails & called praying friends around the country asking them to keep Bill in their prayers. I know prayer avails much and nothing is too hard for God. HE is the Great I AM, not the Great I WAS.

   But, we have to act on our faith. God says to: “Ask and you shall receive.”

    One friend called immediately, she was recovering from heart surgery and too weak to write, but she cared enough to call right away. “Ask your doctor to start Bill on a prescription that saved my husband’s life,” she said. “It’s expensive, but it killed the cancer. Take a pill daily, called Eulexin.”

2. Prescription: Eulexin

    I asked the urologist. “Eulexin is a hormone, with side effects such as hot flashes,” He said. “It now requires an injection every 4 months along with the daily pill.” We started Bill on the prescription and the injection at the Dr office.

     At the next consultation, the Urologist said he had scheduled Bill for radiation, to begin in 3 weeks!

    I told the doctor I didn’t want him to have radiation – I had heard too many horrible stories from friends who had undergone it.

    “Mrs. Scoggan,” he said, “there have been great advances in radiation treatment from what was available in the past. They can focus on small areas and pinpoint the spots needing treatment. I think this is the best for Mr. Scoggan.”
     I replied “Well, I would like to have a second opinion.” I braced myself. Expecting him to get angry and ask if I knew more than he did.  Instead, he sat there and didn’t say anything.

     Then, he looked at me and said “A second opinion is always a good idea. If you’d like, I can schedule an appointment with a Urologist Specialist at the Indiana University Medical Center Cancer Pavilion.”

      We said “Yes.” But, it would be three weeks until Bill could get in.

3. Cryosurgery: Freezing

     Next, a friend from Texas called and told us about her father being totally cancer free for over 5 years, as a result of Cryosurgery. I asked what that was - I never heard of it.

   “Cryo freezes the prostrate, and kills the cancer,” she told me. Her dad was sent around the nation to inform doctors of this treatment. “He hasn’t had any side effects from Cryo,” she said. No sickness, no incontinence, no pain nor weakness. It sounded great!

 “Why don’t you fly down to Dallas, they have a clinic here that does Cryo?” I thanked her and started looking for Cryo nearby. No luck.

Looking for More Choices 

    Driving to Indianapolis, finding the Cancer Pavilion, we met the young Urologist Specialist. I asked if he agreed with our doctor’s opinion of “doing nothing” about Prostate Cancer, at Bill’s age?

    “No!” he said. “This is a very aggressive type of cancer. It moves rapidly out of the prostate and into the bones. There is little we can do once it gets in the bones.”

4-6: Chemo, Remove Prostate, and Cryosurgery

    We don’t want radiation. What other choices do we have,” I asked. “You have 6 choices: Radiation, Chemo, surgical removal hormone therapy, Cryosurgery and do nothing.”

    Bill and I were so excited to find we could get Cryo care in Indiana. He scheduled surgery a few days later, and explained Bill would be in the hospital overnight. He could come home and wouldn’t need any special help with dressing or bathing.

   Bill would need Depends or a pad for about 10 days, due to bloody discharge of matter from the freezing of cancer cells. After that, Bill would come in for a check up in 3-6 month. “Don’t run a marathon for a few weeks,” he said. ”Then, he should be fine.”

    I told him that Bill had been on Eulexin for just over a month, and the specialist thought we take him off of it. Should Bill ever have a recurrence of cancer, we could use it then.

My husband has NO side effects!

    Bill feels great. *No side effects. *He is NOT incontinent. *No hot flashes. *No Weakness. *No cancer

has shown up in any tests.

    I just had to get this information out to help other men. I imagine there are thousands of men who, like Bill, have not been given news about the 6 choices of treatment. Not just one or two.

   It is too good to keep to myself. It’s a MILLION DOLLAR HEALTH TIP for free.  

To schedule Nita, call 812-278-8785

You can contact Nita by email at:

Nitaspeaks@nitascoggan.com