My prostate cancer log

2009-01-13T21:30:40Z

My experience so far... First aware that something was wrong on 18/05/2008 - Sunday Passing blood! Next day GP referred me to local hospital 04/06/2008 - Thursday 9.15 X-ray 9.45 Urology Day Case, investigations 16/06/2008 - Monday 9.45 MRI Scan 14/07/2008 - Monday Pre-op assessment 18/07/2008 - Friday 8.00 Admitted to hospital for TURP op and biopsy 21/07/2008 - Monday Home from hospital 06/08/2008 - Wednesday 10.30 Appointment with consultant. Aggressive prostate cancer confirmed. PSA 37.7 - Gleason 9 - T3,N2,M1 Started Cyproterone Acetate tablets ( 3 a day) 15/08/2008 - Friday 09.30 Injection for Bone Scan 12.00 Bone Scan 16/08/2008 - Saturday Started non-dairy diet 18/08/2008 - Monday 1.00pm 1st injection Zoladex implant 20/08/2008 - Wednesday 2.40 Oncology Clinic Bone cancer in pelvis confirmed Details of Stampede trial explained 03/09/2008 - Wednesday Finished Cyproterone Acetate tablets 10/09/2008 - Wednesday 3.20 Oncology clinic. Blood test, X-ray and ECG 15/09/2008 - Monday Zoladex injection at GP (three month) feeling great and no side effects yet! 19/09/2008 - Friday Confirmed on arm D of Stampede trial with Celecoxib tablets 02/10/2008 - Thursday One week into Stampede trial and Celecoxib tablets - feeling great and no side effects yet! I think the dairy-free diet also helps 13/10/2008 - Monday Spoke too soon, started having hot flushes! 20/10/2008 - Monday Hot flushes now more frequent, sometimes every 10-15 min! Otherwise feeling great. 30/10/2008 - Thursday Blood tests, ready for next week 05/11/2008 - Wednesday 10.30 Chemo suite PSA up slightly to 6.4 otherwise nothing else to report Collected more Celecoxib tablets 06/11/2008 - Thursday 10.30 Revue progress so far with consultant PSA increase no cause for concern, does tend to fluctuate and is still way down from Sept 24 (37.7). No further visits to urology Out-Patients planned. All now being dealt with by chemotherapy dept every 6 weeks 05/12/2008 - Friday 3rd Zoladex injection 15/12/2008 - Monday Blood test for Wed 17th 17/12/2008 - Wednesday 10.20 Chemotherapy clinic, PSA 6.0, slightly down on previous visit. Feeling good apart from occasional groin ache. Continuing to be positive. 28/01/2009 - Wednesday Chemotherapy clinic DRI, PSA 6.2, slightly up on previous visit. Hot flushes still a problem but putting up with them ok Intermittent rashes a problem especially on legs. Otherwise Still feeling OK. Next visit 11th March 27/02/2009 - Friday 4th Zoladex injection 11/03/2009 - Wednesday 10.20 Chemotherapy clinic DRI, PSA 6.1 feeling fine except for hot sweats. Next visit is in 12 weeks. 22/05/2009 - Friday 5th Zoladex injection 03/06/2009 - Wednesday Chemotherapy clinic DCGH, PSA 4.79 a drop of 1.31 from last time, feeling fine except for hot sweats still. Next visit is in 12 weeks

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My prostate cancer log