In hindsight. A phrase I seem to use with increasing frequency. In hindsight I believe that I all too quickly dismissed surgery and went down the path of radiotherapy. Not at that time fully appreciating that I would also be on hormone therapy for two years. I wonder now if complete prostate removal would have been a better option. But then more and more I am coming to the conclusion that with an aggressive Gleason 8, a curative solution is unlikely and that what I am buying is time. With a tumour 2cm along the capsule, it strikes me as unlikely that it is actually contained and that in reality those metastatic cancer cells are travelling elsewhere in my body like a relentless barrage of space Invaders, who can be repelled and pushed back but who will ultimately triumph to my detriment.
