Biopsy results

Hi Linda

Yes, looks like some good news in there.

Only downside looks like maybe in a nearby node so outside the gland.

You didn't mention the staging but that would confirm.

Having said that still potentially curable as looks like not spread elsewhere.

So future treatment should be Radiotherapy which should sort it.

Good luck

Steve 

Thanks Steve, they never mentioned staging all they said was it was low grade but I’ll call tomorrow and ask about staging.  It’s all so complicated!  

Linda

Linda

Very simply stage 2 means cancer inside the gland only.

Stage 3 means moved outside into nodes or vesicles.

But as I said before still curable so fingers crossed, the hormone therapy should keep things down until RT starts

Steve 

Hi Linda

Well - what can I say - thank you. I am here because 18 months ago I was where you are now - wondering what it's all about - there are 3/4 good people on here who put me right and the mystery of PC evaporated and 18 months down the line I feel great - no amazing! - so good enough in fact to want to help everyone who is where I was. Enough of that anyway.....

I am pleased you know where you are going, in brief:

Gleason 7 (3+4)  means most of the cancer cells found in the biopsy look to grow at a moderate rate, some however will grow slowly.

M1 M0 - The lymph nodes contain cancer but it's not spread to other parts of the body.

The Prostap -(hormone therapy) will have brought the testosterone levels down and thus the cancer cells can't grow and his next PSA test will be much lower.

I would think after 3/6 months of hormone therapy the next step will be radiotherapy "with a view to being curative". If you click on the icon of the beach you will see where I have been down this road - although I did have a few additional problems involving a catheter - along the way!

I hope with the information from the CNS and with the above you will both be able to relax tonight over a half of shandy. 

Anything else just ask - you know where we are.

Best wishes

Brian.

Hi Lin,

That's an excellent result! when you first posted I thought you were possiby a bit higher than 7 because of your PSA. You are in the cure zone I believe ( but I'm no expert)  take a breath now and relax for a bit.

Best wishes

L 

Thank you so much.  I’d have been lost without all you lovely and very brave people on here.  It’s such a relief to come and talk to people and get advice.  It’s very worrying waiting on the results arriving and you guys make me feel not so alone as my husband hasn’t coped well and doesn’t even talk about it or ask questions, although I suppose I ask enough for both of us! Lol

Linda

Hi Linda, it all sounds as if it's not as bad as it might have been. I'm no expert but I  recall somebody saying that they had lymph node involvement and that treatment to that node was included in the radiotherapy? Brilliant news that the bone scan was clear! I cried tears of relief when we got the same result.  So, carry on enjoying a bit of being 'mainly relieved'! You deserve it :)

I also got myself in a state before and during the radiotherapy! Some very kind people here got me through it. Looking back, the RT was not as bad as it might have been. The hardest part for us was the travelling - that was really tiring.

I wish you all the best for the coming months and hope that you come away smiling with a treatment plan labelled 'with the intention to cure'

x

Morning WW - I was one of the "lymph node crew". At diagnosis there was a discussion between urology and oncology as to if the cancer had spread to my lymph nodes. I started off as a T3a No (it's not spread) and ended up with T3a NX (we haven't got a clue if it's spread!).

The words of the oncologist - and I kid you not - were " once you are on the sunbed we will zap the lymph nodes to be sure".

Medical science at it's best - but happy days - all is good.

Hope all is good in the ww household and he is improving. and you have give up on the covid!!

Best wishes

Brian.

Hello Brian, yes, I thought you were one of the lymph node crew but did not want to ‘name’ you directly! Yes, thanks, finally back to normal after covid visited - 3 weeks until we both could go out without ringing a bell and shouting ‘unclean’. My husbands medical encounters  this week has been with the dentist for a tooth extraction and opthalmology. . Next week it’s audiology for new hearing aids. We never have a week, it seems, without an appointment with somebody!

hope all is well for you?

Hello WW - Well at least he can see and hear when he goes out and it makes a change from PC appointments - and you can go out!!

All is well here, diabetic review this morning - still overweight - "it's me hormones" and PSA/ Oncology review August. In all honesty I haven't felt this good for years!!

Take care, no doubt speak soon

Best wishes to both

Brian.