tony.welch2's blog

Having treatment for Prostate Cancer everthing OK. Ended r/t therapy 15 months ago. Now been diagnosed with a combination of problems including radioation burn in the back passage. Have other people had or got this problem. Can you tell me your experience etc?

Tony W 

Been having treatment for advanced localised prostate cancer for the last eighteen months

Been transferred back from Oncology to Urology were it was original diagnosed. Saw the Urology Registrar today and it was very clear that he had not read through my notes and he assumed that I had come to the end of hormone therapy at the end of my radiotherapy treatment.

When I was having R/T I assumed that this would be case…

Been a mixture of day

Found that the heating had failed to come on this morning

A friend strained her ankle this morning

Another friend got good news

Blood test results came back today and was good. Radiotherapy at the beginning of the year is working in conjunction with hormone therapy injections to keep my cancer in control. Seeing the Urologist on the 20th, hopefully will be finished with hospitals after this for…

Driving back home this afternoon we were behind a Paramedic Car with the words "Paramedic Practitioner" on the back. My wife said to me " look a there's a "Paramedic Depressioner" in the car ahead, I wonder were he is giong to". The mind boggles at what type of problem he was going off to attend to. Leave the rest to your imaginations. Tony

The one thing that I learnt during the last year about my treatment for advanced localised prostrate cancer is that it is a waiting game and the treatment timescales are much longer than I ever expected My illness was diagnosed in March 2008 and I will not know whether the radiotherapy treatment that I had at the start of 2009 has been sucessfull or not till to November 2009 plus I am on hormone therapy for the next…