WOW- Talk about erectile disfunction.

  I hope the insulation is good....

   Tri-X works well with a number of developers. For normal
development D-76 stock or diluted 1:1 gives good results.
For pushing try T-Max, Xtol, or Microphen. Tri-X needs a
long fixing time similar to T-Max films. Can't help with the
other stuff.
   As far as what films will be available in 20 years, my
crystal ball (made of pure silver nitrate) has been tied up
looking at the commodities markets and horse races. Its been
clouding up lately and complaining of headaches.

jun105 from Lloyd Erlick,

Good point. I haven't actually had treatment
in either mode.

But the conventional method was/is to undergo
knife-style surgery. It's called TURP
(Trans-Urethral Resection of the Prostate).
They refer to it as the 'gold standard' of
this sort of thing, because it's been done a
lot and works quite predictably. But it has
all the drawbacks of regular surgery, like a
significant recovery time.

The microwave devices focus heat into the
prostate from the probe within the urethra.
No cutting, just a bit of cooking. The probe
is electronically cooled so the urethra and
immediate environs (important!) are not
cooked. Recovery time is reputedly quite
short.

In both cases there is a real but small
chance of sexual dysfunction afterwards.
Hence the medical term, "watchful waiting".
In other words, wait as long as possible
before doing anything because you might lose
sexual function, and wouldn't it be great if
it turned out you were so old before you
really, really, really needed it you didn't
function anyway, or maybe even were dead by
then.

My comment about the microwave techniques
being preferable was not based on personal
experience, only investigation. There are
horror stories about any of the techniques, I
believe. I've also seen remarks online from
patients who have had brilliantly wonderful
resolutions with all current methods.

The Prostatron and its ilk are designed to
treat a condition called BPH (Benign Prostate
Hypertrophy). This is not cancer, and is
different from prostatitis. Supposedly 80 per
cent of men get BPH by the age of 80. It's a
hell of a piss-off (and that's a pun,
intended...). It also interrupts one's sleep,
truly one of the universe's little ways of
laughing behind our back. ISR - interrupted
sleep rage??

Well, you asked. I still think Prostatron is
a funny 'word'.

regards,
--le

  This is reminiscent of the Radium Dial scandal.
Orignally, glow-in-the-dark watch and clock dials contained
some Radium to energize the flourescent material. Most of
the dial painting was done at one of several factories run
by a company called The Radium Dial Co. Hundreds of girls
were employed at what were then good wages to paint the
dials. They used small brushes and shaped the brushes by
licking them. They got large doses of Radium which
eventually caused a very high cancer rate and killed a lot
of them. The factory operated from the late 1920's. The
first law suit over Radium poisoning and exposure to
radioactivity came in 1938. Few of the victims sued. It
turned out the company knew all along they were putting the
girls in mortal danger but lied about it.
  Radium dials were still being made after WW-2. I don't
know the date at which they were discontinued. Current
glow-in-the-dark dials do not really glow on their own. Most
are energized by the UV content of the room light and
continue to phosphores at a decreasing rate in the dark.
Eventually they become invisible.
  A Google search for "radium dials" will find various
versions of the above story.