Having recently joined this board, I thought the story of my challenging case would interest some participants, so here goes.

Most of us here are fortunate to have or care about someone with prostate cancer that either looks curable or that probably has already been cured. But a few of us were stunned to find out from the get-go that we had challenging cases, and I'm in that group. My case is considered incurable with current technology, but it also may hopefully be in the chronic category rather than the ultimately lethal category. I'm doing very well, and my case illustrates an option that many patients and even most doctors do not seem to know about, either as a fall-back or primary treatment.