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Re: Gold Silver Bronze

I'm pleased to hear the treatment has gone well. Hopefully your regular checkups will remain boringly uneventful for many years to come.

3 month checkup has PSA less than 0.1 and testosterone less than 20.
The lupron shot to reduce testosterone has not worn off yet. Now it the search for a "nadir" or low point. After testosterone starts going up, PSA can have a bounce but they don't want it more than 2.0. It should then settle to a low point, which can take anything from 3 months to 10 years, average 2 years. They are looking for less than PSA 0.5 and ideally less than 0.2. It should then stay there. Beyond that, if the leftover cells generate any cancer, they don't want more than 2.0 increase above the nadir. If so, that means that they have to find some other type of treatment, like cryo-. I have had a lifetime dose of radiation in that little spot, in my case 55.5 Gray (a unit of radiation absorption) worth of protons.

Crunching continues
3 years 42 days on Smash Childhood Cancer
53 days on Help Stop TB
4 years 283 days on Fight Aids 2
75 days on M.I.P.
I am turning off things after 5 years, which is a good match for the computer power I have here, 14 desktop cores at 100% plus 4 laptop cores running at half speed.
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Crunching continues
3 years 42 days on Smash Childhood Cancer
53 days on Help Stop TB
4 years 283 days on Fight Aids 2
75 days on M.I.P.
I am turning off things after 5 years, which is a good match for the computer power I have here, 14 desktop cores at 100% plus 4 laptop cores running at half speed.

3 years 107 days for Smash Childhood Cancer
318 days on M.I.P.
4 years 350 days on Fight Aids 2 so another day or two should do it. Those were long runners so I would just as soon get them done so short programs can run.
55 days on Help Stop TB
If the above ones finish, I will just open everything up again.
Other current projects are already 5 years.
5 years OpenZika
5 years Outsmart Etola Together
5 years Mapping Cancer Markers
5 years Fight Aids at Home
Beta remains at 83 days.
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Long time without hearing from you. I hope your treatment continues to do well.
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Re: Gold Silver Bronze

Long time without hearing from you. I hope your treatment continues to do well.
Cheers


Treatment itself ended June 28, but I have to go back every 3 months to check where the PSA settles to (nadir). So far, the lupron shot to knock the hormones down hasn't worn off. It was 0.0 on December 28, down from 10.6 when cancer was active. I go back Jan 8.

I have noticed that the team continues to hold its own in crunching power.
WCG has 741,937 members and 33,714 teams but many of these are probably inactive and long gone.

Welcome back retsof
Registered Member Since: 7/31/05 21:03:04 (UTC)

My Contribution
Total Run Time (y:d:h:m:s) (Rank) 60:305:19:41:22 (#2,767)
Points Generated (Rank) 85,682,188 (#2,519)
Results Returned (Rank) 185,977 (#2,192)

My Team: Vulture Central III
Total Run Time (y:d:h:m:s) (Rank) 1051:070:06:39:23 (#119)
Points Generated (Rank) 1,261,320,830 (#116)
Results Returned (Rank) 2,612,765 (#110)

Naturally a few new members would help but there is no easy way to advertise. I could always set up some monthly challenges for each project. MOT used to do that.
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There is a new feature whereby I can e-mail active or all team members.
Since e-mail addresses change so much and some would rather keep it private, I would just as soon not mess with it.

This is still the best place to look for or post any team news.
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Long time without hearing from you. I hope your treatment continues to do well.
Cheers


Treatment itself ended June 28, but I have to go back every 3 months to check where the PSA settles to (nadir). So far, the lupron shot to knock the hormones down hasn't worn off. It was 0.0 on December 28, down from 10.6 when cancer was active. I go back Jan 8.


Yep. PSA of 0 until July 2019 and you're considered cured. Basically, the test results come back as <0.1 as I recall. With me, my PSA had been between 4-4.5 for years. It's supposed to be under 4. Doc kept saying I needed to see a urologist. PSA would go up one time and down the next by a fairly constant amount. Back in 2012, it went up be double the usual so that time I did see a urologist. Biopsy came back positive on June 6 (somehow D-day anniversary seemed appropriate). Results showed it was very early as the prostate was not yet fully involved. Further tests confirmed it had not spread so the prostate came out July 2. Still, as fortunate as I was, a cancer diagnosis still rattles you. It haunts you to some degree or another afterwards too. I've known folks that didn't survive prostate cancer so I particularly enjoy seeing others beat it! Congrats on the journey so far retsof. Make sure you plan a special July 4th celebration in 2019!
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Re: Gold Silver Bronze

Long time without hearing from you. I hope your treatment continues to do well.
Cheers


Treatment itself ended June 28, but I have to go back every 3 months to check where the PSA settles to (nadir). So far, the lupron shot to knock the hormones down hasn't worn off. It was 0.0 on December 28, down from 10.6 when cancer was active. I go back Jan 8.


Yep. PSA of 0 until July 2019 and you're considered cured. Basically, the test results come back as <0.1 as I recall. With me, my PSA had been between 4-4.5 for years. It's supposed to be under 4. Doc kept saying I needed to see a urologist. PSA would go up one time and down the next by a fairly constant amount. Back in 2012, it went up be double the usual so that time I did see a urologist. Biopsy came back positive on June 6 (somehow D-day anniversary seemed appropriate). Results showed it was very early as the prostate was not yet fully involved. Further tests confirmed it had not spread so the prostate came out July 2. Still, as fortunate as I was, a cancer diagnosis still rattles you. It haunts you to some degree or another afterwards too. I've known folks that didn't survive prostate cancer so I particularly enjoy seeing others beat it! Congrats on the journey so far retsof. Make sure you plan a special July 4th celebration in 2019!

Thanks for the note keithhenry
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x-rays (Look how shiny our equipment is)
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robot surgery (chance of recurrence. Some had to go through the 39 proton treatments in addition)
so pushed for protons in the first place. I was in a clinical trial for double strength treatments every other day, so only needed 15.
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MOT gave up on their monthly races, so said to go for it. I have started to enter some data for the challenges. Maybe it will get our name out there. We have no real way of recruiting.

I had to say good bye to a 10 year old Siamese mix cat that came down with kidney disease. It has been tough because she was laid back and a good friend.
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I'm sorry to hear about your cat, hopefully some of the research that is done her into cures for human diseases will benefit our furry companions in future also.

Might I offer a suggestion on recruitment ideas, try to get a plug in ElReg, perhaps even an article on WCG and/or our little team's contribution? Perhaps the BOFH could put WCG on the works IT?

I discovered WCG through an article on The Register many, many years ago. Given the large number of IT savvy readers if even only one or two sign up it would probably give us a decent boost.
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The Register is kind of how I found out about this in the first place, but it was a real challenge to get an answer from them on anything. WCG has also been rather quiet.

Real Life has been busy but I am trying to keep 18 cores chunking along. I have 5 years done on current projects and will kick them up one at a time if I can.
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