Sunday, May 26, 2019
Proton Therapy my personal experience
I have tried the Proton Therapy radiation to destroy a tumor located near my removed prostate.
1st proton therapy was with Loma Linda Medical Center.
These are 7th Day Adventists who reject evolution but have graduated 10,000+ Doctors.
Their idea of Proton therapy is using passive scatter which has only a large pattern.
There is much healthy tissue damage. Their system is the
First iteration of proton technology and is potentially more damaging than the X-ray systems
it is desgned to replace. X-ray systems are known as IMRT Image modulated radio therapy.
They also want PCa patients with a Gleason score over 7 to also get IMRT.
This means IMRT with a Proton boost. This is old school and leaves the patient with many of
the problems of IMRT. It CAN'T be repeated because of x-ray damage to healthy tissue.
The passive scatter also misses much of the tumor leaving the patient with cancer.
My last colonoscopy showed radiation burns on my colon where the proton beam
attacked the tissue. It should be noted that they didn't even aim at my tumor because
it was too high for the rays to penetrate. That was an extreme waste of time and $.
I don't know how they get away with such fraud.
2nd Proton Therapy was in 2014 at Scripps Proton Therapy Center in San Diego, Ca.
They are using the Varian Proton Therapy system. This system uses a pencil-beam
raster scan system developed with PSI in Switzerland. It can be called IMPT.
They can target a tumor to a pencil point and move the beam back and forth
to get at a deeper part of the tumor.
They are currently radiating tumors inside the prostate without surgery.
My PSA reading is down but so is my Testosterone (T) level so not sure if this is working yet.
I will be taking PSA and testosterone reading for the next 5 years.
(Hormone depleting therapy also works by lowering the gonad T level so not sure which is at play
in my case.) I will know if the PSA stays down when (if) the T level goes up.
Proton (charged particles) or hydrogen atoms with stripped electron are superior to x-rays.
1. x-rays do the most damage just inside the skin and keep on damaging until they exit the body.
Protons deliver most of their energy just before they stop (Bragg's peak).
This precision is a major tissue saving feature.
X-ray damaged healthy tissue can not be radiated with x-rays again.
Proton therapy can be used to in salvage radiation on regrowing tumors.
2. X-rays have very little mass (weight) (protons have 1800X the mass)
(Having more mass means more destructive power).
3. X-rays tend to destroy only one of the two strands of DNA.
Cells are good at repairing single-strand breaks.
Note: cancer cells have a problem repairing cells, but they can use
the damaged cells to further metastasis.
(Protons destroy BOTH strands of DNA meaning the cell will apoptosis when trying to reproduce.)
4. X-rays need oxygen to enhance their tumor destroying capacity.
Cancer cells have a notoriously poor oxygen supply so the drugs given
to improve their effectivity also helps the cancer to survive and grow.
5. X-ray treatment centers are located everywhere and Doctors who prescribe may own the equipment.
This conflict of interest leads to many false excuses as to why one should use x-rays vs protons.
An example: it has never been tested against x-ray equipment (clinical trials).
Neither was the system called IMRT (x-ray) which replaced the previous system.
It is too expensive: Provenge cost $93K(factory)+$40K(Doctors) much more then proton therapy and it
only prolongs a patient's life by months!
Doctors make 50% of their profits from the drugs they prescribe.
There is no profit to the prescribing Doctors with protons. (They complain that they are not
compensated for the time it takes to explain why protons are better this is also used as an excuse
as to why they do not recommend clinical trials in general.)
Sunday, December 1, 2013
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Saturday, December 22, 2012
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Prostate Cancer Boondoggle or Prostagate
Varicocele PCA precursor
We know that varicocele or varicose veins of the scrutum, causes oxygen-poor blood enriched with testosterone to be forced up into the prostate bed. This is an anatomical defect of bi-pod animals. The internal spermatic vein's (ISV) have one way check valves that must operate 100,000/yr. By age 40 they have failed. This vein can be up to 14" long in tall men. This allows veinous blood to leak under pressures up to 6X normal into the scrutum. It is then forced up into the prostate bed with up to 130X normal Free Testosterone levels. Testosterone is the most sensitive chemical to the prostate of any chemical in the human body. This information is from Dr Yigil Gat,MSc,MD,Phd., Andrologists. He and Dr Goren,MD Radiologist developed a method of inserting an instrument into the ISV's and cautherizing them to block the blood causing varicocele. He has a US patent for this procedure. He charges $9,000 for the operation. There was a 6 man clinical trial done in Isreal were 5 of the 6, early stage PCa sufferers had their PCa reversed.
Prostate cancer usually strike with the average age of diagnosis at 62. Men with lower serum (blood) levels of testosterone usually have more aggressive forms of the disease. Could this be because the T is leaking into the prostate bed? Doctor's are puzzled because sometimes men are given testosterone patches without increasing PCa. Could that be because the T is circulating in the body NOT in the prostate bed? Could this be like real estate location, location, location?
It is noted that taller men get more aggressive PCA. Could that be to the higher pressure of the varicocele? Could this explain why countries where men are short the PCa rates are lower?
70 years ago when it was noticed that eunics are PCa free. The 1940 treatment was surgical castration and estrogen therapy. Orchiectomy is still practiced today in places where drugs are expensive. Now a multi-billion $ industry has evolved to treat PCa. It should be noted that most men are over 65 with this disease and CMS (US taxpayers) are paying for this care. Primary care is a prostatectomy at $75,000. After that fails is hormone suppression therapy at $1,000 every 3 months.
(Note: that if the hormones are only suppressed when the PSA goes up you would only need this 1 or 2 times in a year. Who will tell this to the Doc's making $from sales?) When that fails there is provenge at $93,000. That only prolongs life. Next, there is chemotherapy cost which with "chair time" can be $18,000/3 mons. This usually causes emergency room visits so that $ cost can only go up. There are now secondary drugs and CYP17A drugs,etc. Oncologists makes up to 60% profit on the sale of chemo drugs. There are 225,000 US males diagnosed/yr. Some can live 20 years going through this cycle. The cost of drugs alone is at least $5 Billion/yr. with lost productivity that's $50 billion/yr.
Who will tell these Dr. to take a 50% pay cut from this gravy train? This is like having the fox 'splain the missing chickens in the coop they are "guarding". Even the DOD is into this. Giving prostatectomies to GI's instead of varicocele repair. Why is breast cancer funded at 3X the rate of PCa by the DOD?
The US has a Federal Medical School at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda,Md. It could be testing the varicocele repair and getting it to the troops and to the general public, pronto!
Then there is the Cancer Research goldmine were $400 billion has been spent since 1972 alone. $ for drugs companies to find new patentable drugs that can be sold at high prices. This is like researching new bucket materials to catch the water from a leaky roof. What is realy done well is finding reasons for MORE research. Their system makes sure they will have full employment until their retirement. There are even cartoons about this as: "Man A,Oh, I found a cure. Man B,Great, now they will close the place up and give our $ to someone else. Man A,Oh, my cure needs much more research. Man B,That's better."
Dr Faber wanted a centralized research facility that could do the lab to bedside work. What we have now is 1.5 million papers on the minutia
of the 75 human cancers. It took only 5 years and $5 billion to develop nuclear weapons. We can cure a large cancer just by repairing male varicocele.
African Americans get PCa worst then whites. They have the highest rate of PCa in the world and the most aggressive forms. They now know of a gene that works to cause aggressive PCa. Hispanics also have a higher rate then whites.
Hello Presdient Obama, a tall AA, over 45 years old, who smoked and whose Mother died of cancer. He also recently had a virtual colonoscopy x-ray that may have further damaged his prostate. He could use this procedure.
What we have now is a system only a man hating Lesbian could enjoy.
Elderly males sick of a very curable disease whose treatment is castration either physically or medically. This boondoggle must end.
We have an early Cure, now who is going to use it?
We know that varicocele or varicose veins of the scrutum, causes oxygen-poor blood enriched with testosterone to be forced up into the prostate bed. This is an anatomical defect of bi-pod animals. The internal spermatic vein's (ISV) have one way check valves that must operate 100,000/yr. By age 40 they have failed. This vein can be up to 14" long in tall men. This allows veinous blood to leak under pressures up to 6X normal into the scrutum. It is then forced up into the prostate bed with up to 130X normal Free Testosterone levels. Testosterone is the most sensitive chemical to the prostate of any chemical in the human body. This information is from Dr Yigil Gat,MSc,MD,Phd., Andrologists. He and Dr Goren,MD Radiologist developed a method of inserting an instrument into the ISV's and cautherizing them to block the blood causing varicocele. He has a US patent for this procedure. He charges $9,000 for the operation. There was a 6 man clinical trial done in Isreal were 5 of the 6, early stage PCa sufferers had their PCa reversed.
Prostate cancer usually strike with the average age of diagnosis at 62. Men with lower serum (blood) levels of testosterone usually have more aggressive forms of the disease. Could this be because the T is leaking into the prostate bed? Doctor's are puzzled because sometimes men are given testosterone patches without increasing PCa. Could that be because the T is circulating in the body NOT in the prostate bed? Could this be like real estate location, location, location?
It is noted that taller men get more aggressive PCA. Could that be to the higher pressure of the varicocele? Could this explain why countries where men are short the PCa rates are lower?
70 years ago when it was noticed that eunics are PCa free. The 1940 treatment was surgical castration and estrogen therapy. Orchiectomy is still practiced today in places where drugs are expensive. Now a multi-billion $ industry has evolved to treat PCa. It should be noted that most men are over 65 with this disease and CMS (US taxpayers) are paying for this care. Primary care is a prostatectomy at $75,000. After that fails is hormone suppression therapy at $1,000 every 3 months.
(Note: that if the hormones are only suppressed when the PSA goes up you would only need this 1 or 2 times in a year. Who will tell this to the Doc's making $from sales?) When that fails there is provenge at $93,000. That only prolongs life. Next, there is chemotherapy cost which with "chair time" can be $18,000/3 mons. This usually causes emergency room visits so that $ cost can only go up. There are now secondary drugs and CYP17A drugs,etc. Oncologists makes up to 60% profit on the sale of chemo drugs. There are 225,000 US males diagnosed/yr. Some can live 20 years going through this cycle. The cost of drugs alone is at least $5 Billion/yr. with lost productivity that's $50 billion/yr.
Who will tell these Dr. to take a 50% pay cut from this gravy train? This is like having the fox 'splain the missing chickens in the coop they are "guarding". Even the DOD is into this. Giving prostatectomies to GI's instead of varicocele repair. Why is breast cancer funded at 3X the rate of PCa by the DOD?
The US has a Federal Medical School at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda,Md. It could be testing the varicocele repair and getting it to the troops and to the general public, pronto!
Then there is the Cancer Research goldmine were $400 billion has been spent since 1972 alone. $ for drugs companies to find new patentable drugs that can be sold at high prices. This is like researching new bucket materials to catch the water from a leaky roof. What is realy done well is finding reasons for MORE research. Their system makes sure they will have full employment until their retirement. There are even cartoons about this as: "Man A,Oh, I found a cure. Man B,Great, now they will close the place up and give our $ to someone else. Man A,Oh, my cure needs much more research. Man B,That's better."
Dr Faber wanted a centralized research facility that could do the lab to bedside work. What we have now is 1.5 million papers on the minutia
of the 75 human cancers. It took only 5 years and $5 billion to develop nuclear weapons. We can cure a large cancer just by repairing male varicocele.
African Americans get PCa worst then whites. They have the highest rate of PCa in the world and the most aggressive forms. They now know of a gene that works to cause aggressive PCa. Hispanics also have a higher rate then whites.
Hello Presdient Obama, a tall AA, over 45 years old, who smoked and whose Mother died of cancer. He also recently had a virtual colonoscopy x-ray that may have further damaged his prostate. He could use this procedure.
What we have now is a system only a man hating Lesbian could enjoy.
Elderly males sick of a very curable disease whose treatment is castration either physically or medically. This boondoggle must end.
We have an early Cure, now who is going to use it?
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Dendreon is developing an HER-2 Theraputic vaccine called Neuvenge. This is an antigen expressed by breast, bladder, gastric, colorectal and ovarian cancer.
This is another new paradigm drug that could save more millions of lives.
If this is given before any other procedures it may be the only needed therapy.
This would really shakeup the oncology industry. $60 billion/yr reduced. WOW!
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