Treated 2002 · Posted 2003
"If any man just diagnosed with prostate cancer and facing the totally bewildering array of treatment options reads this, take seriously not only my testimony but equally those of the many hundreds of other healthy survivors who placed their trust (and their lives) in protons and prayer."
PSA a big zero! After 6 types…
Treated 2001 · Posted 2002
"So, on my final day of treatment, I left LLUMC, drove 1,345 miles in 22 hours and arrived home on my 75th birthday with energy to spare!"
I believe God opened doors for me to go to Loma Linda University Medical Center, for Proton treatment of the prostate.
After retiring from the Air Force, I went to work for…
Treated 2002 · Posted 2002 · Updated 2009
". . .I canceled my surgery and essentially left the urologist/surgeon standing with scalpel in hand."
The beauty in this story concerns events in how I got to Loma Linda. Diagnosed in Mid April after a three year history of PSAs in the 3-6 range, a Gleason score of 3+4=7, a bout of prostatitis in early…
Treated 2000 · Posted 2001
"This is an article I wrote, and one that was published twice in radiology trade magazines. The message was personal, yet I hope educational for readers and an attempt to get men to be checked and women to encourage those checks."
Where does one begin? I suppose at the beginning naturally. This is an article on the…
Treated 1993 · Posted 2002
"I had 37 proton treatments in early 1993 without any pain, loss of hair, nausea or loss of my manhood. I have never had any pain and all of my plumbing is normal."
In 1992 my wife was watching television and saw a free prostate examination offered. She suggested that I might want to take advantage of it. Although I was…
Treated 2001 · Posted 2002 · Updated 2015
“For the first time in my life, I found a medical facility where people were treated like human beings instead of walking diseases.”
My pilgrimage to LLUMC was neither dramatic nor extraordinary. My PSA was 5.6 then jumped to 10. Gleason was 6. I was scheduled for brachytherapy, which my doctor son…
Treated 2001 · Posted 2002
“Protons are heavy, penetrate without scattering, and dump nearly their entire dose in a small volume of tissue (like the prostate), with almost no collateral damage. You really don’t need to understand anything other than this.”
I was diagnosed with prostate cancer in October of 2000. My PSA had risen from 4.0 to 4.8…
Treated 2001 · Posted 2002
"I went into high gear learning all I could about options and outcomes. This involved talking to friends and their friends; reading all the books and articles; researching on the web; and visiting Memorial Sloan Kettering, Massachusetts General, Johns Hopkins and Columbia Presbyterian."
I had watched my PSA yearly since…
Treated 2000 · Posted 2004 · Updated 2015
“My prostate cancer has been in remission for 15 years now.”
It took two needle biopsies three months apart to find my cancer in the spring of 2000. I learned of proton treatment the day of my diagnosis. A friend of a friend had just returned from Loma Linda. I logged on the web, went to…
Treated 2002 · Posted 2003
"As far as we are concerned Loma Linda is the only place to go for prostate cancer treatment. Wilmer’s most recent PSA is 0.76, he has had no side effects and all is well so far."
Wilmer, age 71, was diagnosed with prostate cancer in the summer of 2001. He had gone to his internist for a regular check up and because of…