Updated report

Just posted in my Yahoo group:

I got my cardiologist to include a PSA test with my regular lipid
panel so I have a further report of progress. Here are my numbers for
the past twelve months:

    Date        || PSA ||     PSA doubling time

01/24/08     || 25.0 ||     2.39 years
06/10/08     || 26.6 ||     2.29
07/22/08     || 31.3 ||     2.28
09/23/08     || 25.0 ||     2.66
11/11/08     || 22.9 ||     2.87
12/11/08     || 21.3 ||     3.04

I started taking Sutherlandia OPC [plus IP-6] on 7/25/08 immediately
after getting the news of the highest PSA score I had yet received on
blood drawn on 7/22/08. I have taken the product now for almost five
months and the progress is steady in the right direction. I am
scheduled for a pelvic MRI in January to see what it shows so far as
the cancer is concerned.

I am doing other things as well [including Essiac Tea, Laetrile
maintenance therapy, and Budwig FOCC (flax oil + cottage cheese)] so
it is not possible to know for sure exactly what is responsible for what.

Duane Christensen

Dx 6/06 @ 68, bPSA 14.9, bPSADT 2.51 yrs, T2c Gl 3+3 {reread 4+3 @
Johns Hopkins} | ADT (5 mns) + chemo (2 mns) aborted 11.16.06 |
Protocel 19 mns (11/06-6/08) | Laetrile (1/08); w/ Essiac Tea, IP-6,
Flax Hull Lignans (6/08); Sutherlandia OPC (7/08); Budwig FOCC +
citrus pectin (9/08); & Ayurstate (10.2.08).

My comments:

I believe that while it is likely that more than one thing is contributing, from the dates you posted for the tests and the dates he began the various things he has done, it appears pretty clear that oleander is what turned the time from the time he began taking it after his highest numbers - and thus the drop from 31.3 to 25.0 between 7/22/08 and 9/23/08.

He had been taking Laetrile since January and the numbers had still increased in the next test in June and again in the July results.  Likewise he had taken Essaic, Flax Hull Lignans and IP6 for sometime in June until the July 23rd tests and the numbers had increased by a significant amount - though I will grant you that he had not taken them very long at the time.  He did not begin Budwig on the other hand until only a couple of weeks before his first measured decrease, making it an unlikely candidate for much of the improvement.

Ergo, it appears that the two months of oleander likely played a very large role in turning the tide - without discounting the supporting and perhaps synergistic roles of the rest of what else he has done.  Which is what I would expect.

DQ