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Hi all, just joined this forum after diagnosis recently. It's great to see your mutual support and courage but I admit to being pretty scared too after reading! I'm curious about treatment timescales to expect. I'll explain time line and welcome your...
This is just to introduce myself. I am 74 and otherwise in good health. My diagnosis was confirmed yesterday and I will be undergoing surgery in about a month- circumcision and graft and testing the lymph nodes. Best wishes to all who have gone...
Hi all My husband has been referred to a London hospital with strongly suspected penile cancer. He's let it get to quite a state and its very apparent it is cancer. They have touched on various treatments which will probably involve some kind of amputation...
Hello cancer warriors, I am new to this forum. I have been asked to get a biopsy done for checking if I have cancer in my urethra. I had a cystoscopy done last week and they found “abnormal looking carpet like structures in my urothelium in my penis...
I’ve had phimosis for nearly 25 years and didn’t really think anything of it, it wasn’t causing me stress and I’d never heard anything detrimental. Then, about 4 months ago started to get a lump under my foreskin, still didn’t worry, until it started...
Hi to everyone on here ,I'm new to all this being diagnosed with penile cancer as rocked my life ,its just an emotional roller coaster not being able to control the crying and the ups and mainly theowns . It all start with an infection in my penis ,water...
Hi, I am a 53 year old male. In 2016, I noticed a strange like sore on my penis and was refered by my doctor to the hospital Urology Department, where a biopsy was performed and I was informed that I had Dysplasia. I had a circumsision and things...
Hi everyone, I was diagnosed with penile cancer in Jan 2018 and had glansectomy 3 months later, followed by DSNB few months after that. Unfortunately the skin graft didn't heal as planned and has caused other problems which are still around today. But...
Just had a glansectomy anyone concerned about a lesion on their penis contact me and I can tell you about my experience over the last few months.
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