Prostate cancer & Herpes virus mutants

22 January 2007 at 11:43 am (2002, Letters, Undated)

P.J. Cozzi
University of New South Wales
St. George Hospital
Department of Surgery
Pitney Clinical Science Bldg.
Sydeney, NSW 2217, Australia

Dear Mr. Cozzi,

I have just come across an article concerning a study which appeared in Prostate magazine concerning two Herpes Simple Virus mutants, G207 and NV1020. You were cited as the contact person for this report.

I am a patient with prostate cancer, Gleason 9, which was diagnosed in January, 2002. I have been on hormone suppression therapy with Lupron and Casodex since February. At first, the therapy worked, lowering my PSA from a high of 24.5 at diagnosis to a low of 2.3 in May. My PSA level has increased to 5.6, 7.7, and 8.7 in September. I also have minimal bone metastases to my shoulders and hips, bilaterally. According to my oncologist, this has not changed since January. I’ve been informed that I have 12-27 months to live.

I’m very interested in your viruses and would like to be a sugject in any study you may be conducting so long as I will be a recipient of one or the other virus.

I would like to have a copy of the paper concerning these viruses to show my oncologist if that is possible. I would appreciate your help in my situation as I prefer not to bow out of existence quite yet. You may reache me at my e-mail address cited above.

Yours truly,

Norman Pearl

1 Comment

  1. Jonathan (son #3) said,

    22 January 2007 at 11:46 am

    This is an undated letter, found in a folder alongside numerous copies of College Days and a couple other poems, various travel itineraries, work documents (he was a semi-retired medical transcriptionist), and a copy of The American Poetry Review, September/October 2002.

    I have no knowledge or record of whether it was sent (though I suspect it was), nor whether he received any response.

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