November 18, 2006: Dr. Charles "Snuffy" Myers, at the Chicago Prostate Cancer Symposium, 9 September 2006 (on DVD)

"Exciting New Advances in Treatments and Detection"

At this symposium Dr. Myers, an oncologist, talked about treating patients with advanced (metastatic) prostate cancer. He discussed the importance of diet; he said that he starts with triple hormonal blockade (Lupron, triple Casodex, Proscar) and that he continues it until the PSA fails to drop further; he does not wait for PSA to rise, but switches to another regime immediately when the PSA stops decreasing. He mentions a medication to boost the immune system and says that there are available a wide variety of cancer fighting drugs; he uses them as he feels appropriate for the individual patient. A very interesting presentation; we have it on DVD.