After 15 days of antibiotics, I saw my urologist again on June 27th. My PSA was .66! That was an encouragement! I have another appointment on Oct 2nd. We will do another PSA then.

I have a friend in CA that had a prostatectomy about 5 years ago. His PSA started increasing last year. His doctor at UCLA recommended he start drinking 8 ozs of Pomegranate juice every day. I also read a study that recently came out that seemed to indicate that Pomegranate juice has a very positive effect on the prostate.

I started dringing 8 ozs daily last week. I purchased a juice concentrate that mixes 1 part concentrate to 5 parts water. It has a great taste! I either mix with water or add 40 ml of concentrate to a fruit/kefir smoothie. Is is great tasting and hopefully will help lower my PSA or keep it from increasing.

I went for my annual physical May 31, 2007. Of course I recieved a prostate check and also bloodwork to determine my PSA. My last PSA was 0.54 and with the downward trend I have had the past two years, I expected it to be even lower. Well, to my surprise, we found out on Thursday it had more than doubled to 1.12 since January 29th! Kay made me an appointment with the urologist for Monday and we spent the weekend just releasing this whole cancer thing to God again.

It is amazing how you can go through all this and release it all to God and then little by little take it back! I am grateful for the opportunity to reevaluate everything and put it all back in the hands of God!

Well, today we met with my urologist for the first time in over two years. He looked at my records and said, "You received proton treatment, good. Looks like we are going to have a proton center here soon." After some further discussion and evaluation, he prescribed an antibiotic for two weeks. I return on the 27th for bloodwork and to see what the next step is. It could be an infection or any of "a hundred and one things" as the doctor said.

I am encouraged after a long weekend of deep thought and I am grateful for a God that I can put my full trust in!

I had a blood test Monday, January 29th. It has been nineteen months since I completed my Proton external radiation therapy. I received the results on Friday, February 2nd, 2007. My PSA is continuing to go down. It was .54!

I plan to have another PSA on July 1st, 2007 which will be two years from my last Proton radiation treatment.

This is a demonstration of the findings in past research that the median time to reach the nadir PSA after treatment is 27-36 months.

As long as my PSA continues to decline or remain level, my Prostate cancer is under control and not recurring. My desire is that my nadir PSA would at least be below .5 and it would be better if it were below .2. PSA is generally higher after treatment by radiation therapy (because you still have a prostate) than after a radical prostatectomy (where the prostate is removed).

I am attaching a chart of my PSA numbers since treatment.