New prostate test to replace PSA

NewsTarget.com printable article
Originally published August 24 2006
New EPCA-2 prostate cancer test far more accurate than discredited PSA test
(NewsTarget) The prostate specific antigen (PSA) test is the primary method of determining whether a male patient has prostate cancer or not, but it can generate false positives -- elevated levels of PSA without any cancerous cells -- so Johns Hopkins University researchers have developed a test that may be more accurate because it searches for the blood protein early prostate cancer antigen-2 (EPCA-2).
The researchers measured EPCA-2 levels in 330 patients, and then divided them into groups determined by their prostate cancer and PSA status. The scientists determined that an EPCA-2 level of 30 or more indicated an elevated risk for prostate cancer, and all of the men with no evidence of the disease -- regardless of PSA levels and any other cancers or benign conditions they may have -- had an EPCA-2 level of less than 30.
Ninety-seven percent of the patients who did not have prostate cancer tested negative in the EPCA-2 test. Seventy-seven percent of men with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), which is often linked to false positives in PSA tests, tested with EPCA-2 levels less than 30.
Ninety percent of study participants who were known to have prostate cancer, and 98 percent who had cancers outside the prostate, showed EPCA-2 levels greater than 30. The test even identified 78 percent of patients known to have cancer despite normal PSA levels.
"This is good news from the diagnostic front," said Mike Adams, a consumer health advocate. "The traditional PSA test has been widely denounced as an accurate measure of prostate cancer, so it's a relief that a more accurate test has emerged. Yet countless doctors around the world continue to rely on the outdated PSA test, which delivers unacceptably high rates of false positives."
The Johns Hopkins scientists said they hope to run bigger clinical trials of the EPCA-2 test, and if these trials generate promising results, the test could be available in approximately 18 months.

Dr Larry Clapp Comment-This is very encouraging and so badly needed. The PSA has proved to be so unreliable, that Dean Stamey at Stanford was quoted as saying a million prostates were removed erroneously at Stanford alone. For more info see: www.prostate90.com//a>

Prostate Nano Calcification Study

To ALL- with calcification, (stones) in their prostates- (documented by Sonogram).
Are you interested in reducing/eliminating prostate calcification, accompanying BPH, prostatitis symptoms, at no cost to you, except for travel, twice to Tustin, CA? Send me an email, please. lclapp@prostate90.com
This FDA approved study will be widely published to assist millions of men suffering now and in the future, with these problems. The Study is sponsored by The Prostate90 Foundation, http://www.prostate90fndn.org/ and World Health Products, LLC, Draper, Utah, http://www.detoxamin.com/
1. Goal- to measure reduction/elimination of calcification, (30 men) primarily by before and after sonograms, symptomology, blood and Fecal analysis.
2. Protocol- 3 months EDTA Chelation, utilizing suppositories, mineral replacement and Tetracycline (FDA approved IRB)
3. Timing- Sept 9 to Dec 9, 2006
4. Requirements- Be present for Sonograms, in Tustin, CA, on Sept 9 and on Dec 9.
5. Pre-requisite- Prior sonogram documenting prostate calcification and/or stones.
6. Safety-
a. A similar pilot study, (12 men), has been conducted by The Cleveland Institute, Weston, FL, Daniel Shoskes, MD (well respected, UCLA Urologist), published in the Journal of Urology, Feb 2006. 68% reduction/elimination of prostatic calcification. See attached.
b. Dr. Rita Eliathorpe, MD, http://www.tlcmd.net/ our study doctor and Principal Investigator, regularly uses this protocol with her patients, with outstanding success and no negative side effects, now totaling in excess of 200 patients, over the past 2 years. Dr. Rita is a very caring clinical physician, has a very extensive, up to date natural hormone balancing, practice for men and women, in a small very friendly clinic.
c. Over 20,000 patients have successfully completed the Detoxamin protocol without any reported problems.
d. The Proastate90 Foundation is conducting an informal pilot study of the protocol, no problems, in month 2 now.
e. I will be a full participant, to clean up my remaining calcification, which has been reduced over the years, providing I qualify, on the 1st sonogram, as having sufficient remaining calcification, to be a valid testee.
7. Compensation/benefits (upon completion):
a. 2 fecal heavy metal tests, by Doctors Data Laboratories, Value $300
b. 2 PCD Prostate Sonograms, Value $1,000+
c. 3 months Chelation treatments, with replacement minerals, equivalent to 30 IV, Chelation treatments, Value $3,000+
d. Copies of reports on the above.
e. A free additional, 3 months, supply of Detoxamin, Supplementary Vit/Mineralsl and Tetracycline. Value $3,000+
We are very excited to finally have this study approved, funded and underway, looking forward to on (or preferably off list) volunteers. To: lclapp@prostate90.com A copy of your last sonogram report is requested.
Volunteers will receive full documentation of the study, scheduling and travel map/directions.
Meanwhile read the book, Calcium Bomb, available on http://www.amazon.com/
THANK YOU!! J
Healthy regards,
Larry
Larry Clapp, PhD, JD
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http://www.prostatitis60daycure.com/
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Prostate Medical Treatments-HIFU - U.S. Trials

HIFU - U. S. trials
Filed under: Treatments-Medical — lclapp @ 10:37 pm
HIFU, trials are only being offered to failed seed guys, do we have any in pralt? The trials seem mainly geared to selling HIFU out of the U.S.
HIFU is being hyped by the machine manufacturer, some Docs, including Bard, has great promise in theory and rumored in Europe, however 6 out of 6 in this group have reported disasters, including no improvement. Do we know any successes? Bard, others clam up, when asked for contacts of successes.
Lumpectomy for prostate is already successful in International trials, HIFU may emerge as a part of that picture, in a year or 2, but RFA seems more controllable/promising. All must be guided by cutting edge, PCD, 3D Sonography, which medicine, so far has not been willing to embrace. Will be very interesting! A new generation of technology is emerging, encompassing 3D PCD and treatment modality in the same machine.
So far, I would not recommend HIFU to anyone, trial or otherwise. Why take the risk when PCa is easy to heal naturally, for those willing work through the basics. Natural results in a healthy body for all other purposes. All these “treatments” are limited to symptoms, weaken the body’s ability to deal with the real causes.
More, later. Let’s see if we can find some successes, to actually communicate with-
Larry Clapp, PhD, JD
www.prostate90.com
http://www.prostatehealth90days2006.com/
http://www.prostatitis60daycure.com/
The latest successful Alternatives for Prostate Cancer and Prostatitis
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Prostate Healing Inflamation

This is interesting, however see more natural treatments on http://www.prostate90.com


Why symptoms of prostate inflammation can be misleading Dr Thomas Stuttaford
Your health questions answered
A 39-year-old faithfully married man has e-mailed about his diagnosis of prostatitis. Unfortunately, he doesn’t describe his symptoms in detail, but tells us that he suffers “discomfort”. Presumably this refers to the usual symptoms of prostatitis: low back ache, radiating into his loin, inner thighs, genitalia and the area between his scrotum and anus (the perineum).
The reader didn’t mention it, but the discomfort would also probably have been associated with difficulty and/or frequency when passing urine. Not all symptoms occur in every case. The start of his condition coincided with a stressful job demanding long hours in the office and a three-hour commute, beginning at 5.15am. The sedentary life that resulted from this lifestyle had caused his weight to increase by almost two stone. His self-prescribed treatment — self-prescribed because none of that offered by doctors over the past two years had helped — was to lose 6lb in weight and to increase his intake of broccoli and berries.
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Prostatitis is a term that strictly means the inflammation of the prostate, although this is not always demonstrable, and is picked up either from the girlfriend or the bladder. It is one of the subjects that medical writers approach with trepidation. The subject is so contentious that whatever they write will produce angry correspondence from experts (most of whose opinions will differ), disgruntled patients who are still suffering and alternative practitioners. Unsurprisingly, our reader writes that he has been unable to obtain clear answers to his questions, either in this country or the United States. One American source suggested that the symptoms could follow too much sitting when tense.
Dr Eric Dunlop, my mentor at the Royal London Hospital, has heavily influenced my opinions about prostatitis. He was the man who overcame widespread professional ridicule by battling to gain acceptance of his research that chlamydial infections were important and were the cause of pelvic inflammatory disease. His work and persistence has saved the fertility of countless women.
Another of Dr Dunlop’s causes was to achieve more precision about the diagnosis of prostatitis. He was sceptical about the diagnosis in most of the cases of prostatitis that were presented to him, unless its bacterial origins were obvious. In many of the cases that he saw, he suspected that the prostate was healthy and that the trouble lay elsewhere. Bacterial prostatitis can be acute or chronic. Both types may be difficult to eradicate with antibiotics and often need exceptionally long courses of these.
Another of the Dunlop teachings was that, even if the bacteria was sensitive to a specific antibiotic, it didn’t necessarily follow that it could penetrate prostatic tissue easily. The antibiotic needed to be chosen with care. The organisms involved include chlamydia as well as those that haunt the urinary tract. These include E.coli, proteus and klebsiella. Often the presence of bacteria can be established only by prostatic massage and analysis of the prostatic fluid, or by the analysis of urine taken before and after prostatic massage.
The controversy surrounding prostatitis centres on those patients who have such symptoms as low back ache, pain in the thighs and genital pains, but are without evidence of a bacterial infection. These cases are sometimes diagnosed as prostatodynia, a pseudoclassical term that means no more than a painful prostate.
Two cases that are typical of the many that had been incorrectly diagnosed as non-bacterial prostatitis were those of the machinery manufacturer and the travel courier. Both had had months, if not years, of treatment after some very uncomfortable investigation.
The manufacturer travelled north about once a month to supervise the running of the equipment that his factory had installed. These visits were followed by pain in his lower back, worse after sex, that radiated to his perineum, inner thigh and genitalia. He was convinced that his girlfriend up north had something nasty. Dr Dunlop and I were equally convinced that she hadn’t. An MRI scan of his back showed a disc lesion that was pressing on his spinal cord at a level that would account for his pain. Disc pain is often made worse by sex and by long car drives, hence its association with the journeys north by the manufacturer. Intervention by the orthopaedic surgeons enabled him to continue to visit his friend, and to keep his factory’s machinery working.
The courier developed his “prostatic” symptoms every time he took a party overseas. He too had a clearly demonstratable disc lesion. Once he had been told to leave the carrying of heavy cases to others, he lost his symptoms of “prostatitis”.
It is not surprising that a popular American textbook not only recommends long courses of the appropriate antibiotics for bacterial prostatitis but also muscle relaxants, anti-inflammatory drugs and tranquillisers for those in whom there is little evidence of infection.
Incidentally, the reader is on the right track. His spine will be helped by weight loss, and as a precautionary measure tomatoes, berries and pomegranate juice are excellent for prostate health.

Dr Larry Clapp Comment-It is refreshing to have the Doctor deal with back pain, which often is a cause of prostatitis, because most Doctors will not. Medicine still believes that if a prostatitis patient takes enough antibiotics for long enough, (months-years) he will be healed. We find the opposite, the more antibiotics, the worse the symptoms become and the more tenacious the ptostatitis becomes, because the imune system is severely crippled by the antibiotics. Also the more antibiotics the more candida, which is always a major component of prostatitis. We find that cleansing and rebuilding the immune system has a far better track record of permanently healing the prostate. For more info see: www.prostatitis60daycure.com/