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Month 4 begins with the teleconference with my urologist, and he says congratulations on the PSA number drop. He is less worried for me. I am officially on Active Surveillance (AS). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He also suggests it can be somewhat common to see one drop, but in my case, I have never had my PSA drop since my tracking began in November 2017. Maybe stopping the testosterone supplement is the cause, although my testosterone is still in the 300s. This is puzzling since my urologist said while taking testosterone supplements, my body stops making it, and stopping it would normally mean less testosterone until my body revs back up again. Can I make the drop happen in my PSA a second time? That would really mean something.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My urologist goes on to say I should retest my PSA again in four months, and then four more months to my next MRI which will tell us a lot at that point. The MRI will measure my tumor diameter, which was 1.4 cm last November. Tumors are spherical, shaped like a marble, and the volume is in direct proportion to the PSA number, my urologist tells me. My PSA has dropped in half. Will my tumor now measure at half the volume? The MRI hopefully will confirm that. That would be scored as \u201cin remission\u201d meaning not progressing. As a former math teacher, the volume of a sphere as a function of the radius was never so useful. V(r) = 4\/3(PI)r3<\/sup> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I re-up my supplies:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Luteolin above sometimes is out of stock and so I get this one instead<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I started doubling up on the supplements: one in the morning, and one at night. Previously to this, I was taking one a day. I keep hunting down more and more articles that confirm what I already think is a good course. More and more great news on the pomegranate seed oil (PSO), so I’ve been increasing that to three half-droppers full twice a day, always taken with the other supplements luteolin and ellagic acid. I learned that prostate cancer research takes place on several types of prostate cancers called prostate cancer lines<\/a>. Each line is a cancer from a particular individual in the past. The line is used and reused for research consistency, but is not the exact cancer found in anyone else\u2019s body, yet similar. For example, the LNCaP line came from a 50-year-old caucasian male in 1977. The whys and wherefores of using particular cell lines to study can be found here as well as the links below<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n