http://psa-rising.com/blog/index.php/2005/12/29/zyflamend prostate cancer news Tue, 06 Nov 2007 02:23:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 http://psa-rising.com/blog/index.php/2005/12/29/zyflamend#comment-1007 guardy2000 Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:21:01 +0000 http://psa-rising.com/blog/index.php/2005/12/29/zyflamend#comment-1007 my father was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1996 when he was 75years old, usual treatments of casodex, zoladex etc controlled everything (psa around 10-15)until late 2004 when psa began rising (35)by mid 2005 psa had risen steadily to over 600. Treatments during this time included various steroids, bone targetted radiotherapy...nothing seemed to stop the rise! Around August 2005 I read about Zyflamend and the promise it had shown in the lab and was encouraged that it was going to human clinical trials in Columbia University New York. Nothing to lose we thought, we'll give it a try! At this point psa was being monitored every 6 weeks and was rising every time, he was now taking a steroid called dexamethasone which 6 weeks earlier had been increased to 2mg/day. I purchased some zyflamend capsules from a uk stockist and father started taking them about 5weeks before his next appointment. In addition we made a few dietary changes well publicised on the web such as reducing dairy products, changing from black tea to green tea, increasing cooked tomato intake, reducing red meat and substituting with oily fish etc. 5 weeks came and fathers psa result showed a small increase..relatively good news considering the previous large & rapid rises! 6 weeks later now late 2005, psa fell for the first time from over 600 to mid 500's. Ever since then his psa has fallen and today he is seen by his physician 6 monthly instaed of 6 weekly. His psa result today (june 2007) fell again to 27. His steroid dose has reduced also over time with continuing psa falls and he now takes 0.5mg daily. He continues with Zyflamend. Who knows whether the falling psa is related to Steroids, Zyflamend, dietary changes or some other factor or even a combination of all. To us it doesn't really matter why, just that I still have a relatively active 86year old father who still drives a car and cares for himself with no day to day pain. His biggest problem today is muscle wastage and easy bruising from the steroid use but even that seems stable now and is a relatively small price to pay we think. I'm just pleased I read about Zyflamend when I did, and i'll be interested to read about the clinical trial results when they are published! my father was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1996 when he was 75years old, usual treatments of casodex, zoladex etc controlled everything (psa around 10-15)until late 2004 when psa began rising (35)by mid 2005 psa had risen steadily to over 600. Treatments during this time included various steroids, bone targetted radiotherapy…nothing seemed to stop the rise!
Around August 2005 I read about Zyflamend and the promise it had shown in the lab and was encouraged that it was going to human clinical trials in Columbia University New York. Nothing to lose we thought, we’ll give it a try!
At this point psa was being monitored every 6 weeks and was rising every time, he was now taking a steroid called dexamethasone which 6 weeks earlier had been increased to 2mg/day. I purchased some zyflamend capsules from a uk stockist and father started taking them about 5weeks before his next appointment. In addition we made a few dietary changes well publicised on the web such as reducing dairy products, changing from black tea to green tea, increasing cooked tomato intake, reducing red meat and substituting with oily fish etc.
5 weeks came and fathers psa result showed a small increase..relatively good news considering the previous large & rapid rises!
6 weeks later now late 2005, psa fell for the first time from over 600 to mid 500’s. Ever since then his psa has fallen and today he is seen by his physician 6 monthly instaed of 6 weekly. His psa result today (june 2007) fell again to 27. His steroid dose has reduced also over time with continuing psa falls and he now takes 0.5mg daily. He continues with Zyflamend.
Who knows whether the falling psa is related to Steroids, Zyflamend, dietary changes or some other factor or even a combination of all. To us it doesn’t really matter why, just that I still have a relatively active 86year old father who still drives a car and cares for himself with no day to day pain. His biggest problem today is muscle wastage and easy bruising from the steroid use but even that seems stable now and is a relatively small price to pay we think.
I’m just pleased I read about Zyflamend when I did, and i’ll be interested to read about the clinical trial results when they are published!

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