Hi there, my father (64) was diagnosed back in March with bladder cancer and aggressive prostate cancer. He has had a large tumour removed from his bladder and then completed 6 weeks of mitomycin chemotherapy. He had a PET scan 4 months ago which showed the prostate cancer hadn’t spread. He has a Gleason score of 9 and the tumour is on both sides of his prostate. He was going to have radiotherapy and hormone therapy but they changed their minds saying that due to his bladder cancer, he would need a radical prostatectomy. We met with the surgeon and he was so rude, belittling and awful to my dad. My dad also has Fibromyalgia and suffers badly with mind fog and forgetfulness. The surgeon ranted at my dad and even ‘shushed’ me! This has worried my dad and now is even more frightened. He’s just had his operation for the removal of his prostate cancelled for the 3rd time. I don’t know if I did the right thing or not, but I put my dad’s results into chat gpt to try gauge any info to help and now I’m even more stressed. I haven’t told my dad this as I don’t want to worry him further. We’re 5 months on from dad’s diagnosis and surely it should have been weeks for treatment and not months? Will all this delay now mean that the aggressive cancer will spread? I am feeling a little helpless and don’t know what to do.
