Re: Who has seen their Prostate Actually Cured by iodine?

My husband was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1992. He chose to treat it with what was then called "watchful waiting". That was a good choice that we do not regret because he educated himself about the disease & had it monitored closely. He did not want a radical, which may or may not have been a mistake.... The docs think it was a mistake but we notice that many guys we knew who had the radical are long dead. We have learned over the years a radical does not guarantee the cancer is gone. It may even spread it. He had diligently pursued many alternative methods to deter the disease. His cancer is now advanced and metastatic, in the pelvic bones, affecting urination and defecation. He has had two TURPS [trans-urtheral resection of the prostate, the fist one was green light laser, the second one surgical [Oct 2011], the second one, surgical, was done on May 8. He has been on 50ml. Iodoral for many years and on Armour thyroid also for the last couple of years. He was told by F in NC that he should stay on that amount of Iodoral for the rest of his life since he has PC. Another MD prescribed the Armour too.

It would be wonderful if Iodine cured PC. We keep hoping but the truth is the condition is worsening and major Western medical intervention has become necessary .... causing all sorts of other problems, of course, including nerve damage to femoral nerve of one leg which has been diagnosed as from radiation to pelvic wall and prostate for the cancer. Because of the nerve damage he cannot walk without a walker and has had dangerous falls. Radiation was 30 treatments ending at the end of 2/12. It vastly improved defecation but is said to be only temporary. [The docs predict rerouting surgery for bags both to pee and poop will eventually be necessary.] Nerve pain started in the last few days of radiation treatment and rapidly worsened to include pain, numbness, tingling and loss of ability to left or extend the left leg. If this happens to you, you might look into taking METHYL B12 [it has to be the methyl form]and benefotiamine [which is fat soluble vit B1.

It is probably true that the Iodine plus the many, many other natural, alternative treatments my husband has diligently sought out, researched, and used over the the past 20 plus years have significantly slowed down the disease. He is still taking the iodine, of course.
Even a couple of the doctors have suggested that my husband was somehow able to slow down the disease process, though they are not much interested in how he did it.

A major point I want to make here is that just because one's prostate situation has improved as evidenced by not being up many times or at all during the night to urinate [from taking Iodine or something else].....THAT DOES NOT MEAN THAT THE MAN DOES NOT HAVE OR DOES NOT STILL HAVE PROSTATE CANCER OR THAT AND THAT IT WILL NOT SPREAD IN TIME MAKING IT DIFFICULT OR IMPOSSIBLE FOR HIM TO PASS URINE OR TO DEFECATE... AND INFILTRATING HIS BONES. YOU DO NOT WANT TO GO TO THAT PLACE IF YOU CAN POSSIBLY KEEP FROM DOING SO. Regular scans and blood work must be done TO STAY ON TOP OF WHAT IS HAPPENING... and none of not very many, please, of those darned billable procedure biopsies that are actually very likely to be spreading the cancer every time they are done. Some docs order them quite frequently on the same patient. THE EVEN THE RADICAL PROSTATE SURGERY CAN SPREAD THE CANCER. ALL IT TAKES IS ONE ESCAPED CELL.

Yes, take iodine if you think you should. But do educate yourself about prostate cancer ... and not just online: medical texts, medical journals. Go to US TOO and Man to Man groups in your community where you can meet your peers and find out what is helping and hurting them. And there is "Cancer Tutor" online. Take charge of treating your disease. Learn so you can understand your docs and partner with them in planning your strategy to save your life. And find out too, exactly how bad it can get at the end. You need to know NOW what prostate cancer is like at the end physically and financially for the man who is losing his life to it. That will inspire you to get yourself treated well and early... to buy more time. Because short of a miracle or a well timed very early surgical or other drastic intervention [and maybe not even then] your prostate cancer will eventually progress with dire results. It is a slow moving disease usually, except in some aggressive cases. If you are really old when diagnosed and you have a slow PC, you may never have serious problems. But to be on the safe side, as soon as you get diagnosed, take it upon yourself to read. Not just online. Research every legitimate treatment that is being used for PC. Find a doctor who will work with you and enlist his or her help in choosing the best treatments for your long term health. Be open to alternative treatments but learn to be discriminating. Over many years at US TOO and Man to Man meetings, we have meet many men who had radicals [prostate removal] soon after diagnosis and seemed to be "cured". Guess what, 8. 10, 15 or fewer years later they have, of course, no prostate, but some "suddenly" have prostate cancer in spades. There is HIFU, there is the radical, , there are various beams. Look into all of it. For home use there are anal heat probes. Look now at your options. Find out about the new drugs. Find out what MD Anderson Hospital in Texas is doing for PC. Get on it now and make it the major focus of your life... so your can keep on living. Sure, iodine is good. But it is not apt actually to CURE prostate cancer. Do not assume you have beat prostate cancer just because you no longer get up at night to pee or get up only once: Western medicine does not currently have a cure for prostate cancer and does not really have much to help advanced prostate cancer except for radiation and chemotherapy. One soon reaches one's lifetime limit with the radiation and may sustain serious permanent injury from the treatments as my husband did. Our oncologist and urologist tell us that chemotherapy helps advanced metastatic prostate cancer symptoms only for a few months. After six months the chemo is badly tolerated by the body and eventually becomes counterproductive. THEY ADVISE NOT TRYING THE CHEMO IN LATE STAGE UNTIL THE SYMPTOMS ARE SO SEVERE THAT THERE IS NO OTHER CHOICE TO STAY ALIVE for a little while longer. Radiation and chemo for prostate can only appreciably help PC at an earlier stage and even then may cause damage and may not end the cancer.

Iodine , yes. Iodine and no further monitoring or treatment: no. Until there is reason to be convinced that iodine does the full job. Best wishes.
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