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NZ docs too ‘scared’ to try some prostate cancer treatments with proven overseas records
Posted in Biochemical recurrence, Bone cancer, Chemotherapy, Hormone therapy, Hormone-refactory, PROSTATE CANCER, Prostate drugs, Prostate stories, PSA tests, Salvage therapy, Survival, Testosterone treatment, Treatment debate, Wives' stories, tagged advanced prostate cancer, comparison of treatments, Hormone therapy, inflexible approaches, Keto, ketoconazole, NZ doctors, NZ medical professionals, prostablog, prostate, prostate blog, PROSTATE CANCER, prostate cancer treatments, prostate treatment, prostate treatment debate, PSA, PSA test, side effects on July 12, 2009| Leave a Comment »
JULY 10: PROSTABLOG NZ: “It’s sad that medical professionals in NZ are so scared of possible side effects from a treatment like Ketoconazole, that they refuse to even acknowledge it, even if it has been proven to be effective overseas.”
These words were written today by Mary – a Kiwi whose partner has advanced prostate cancer – as she describes the frustration of being unable to persuade NZ doctors to move outside what seem to her to be inflexible approaches to treatment.
“I produced prostate cancer digests from people I know who have had large drops in PSA on Keto, but I was told I know only a few people and trials showing side effects have been done on thousands,” she says.
“When I said I would like to see the papers on this, I was told I was not a doctor…and to this I respond “no, but I am the partner of a man with advanced cancer.”
READ the second chapter of Mary’s struggle to save her man.
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