Just wanted to ask a couple of questions regarding my husbands Oncology appt earlier.
Firstly she’s arranging a PSMA PET scan, the oncologist is located at a different hospital to my urologist, as the first hospital don’t have a radiotherapy unit. Despite being T3b and Gleason 9 the urologist didn’t automatically offer a PSMA scan due to being N0 M0 but oncologist wants to be sure that there isn’t any lymph node spread, she said if any micro spread is found she can treat it at the same time as the radiotherapy. We found this quite positive, he’ll have to travel to the Radcliffe in Oxford but worth the trip.
She’s also suggesting that he takes Abiraterone alongside the Prostap, as she thinks it would be beneficial long term and he meets the criteria. Has anyone else had this combination? He’s read the leaflet and the side effects look pretty daunting, but he’s a fit healthy 63 year old with no comorbidities so she said a good candidate.
He was expecting radiotherapy to start within three months, as this is what urology had said, but she would prefer it to be six months as the longer period of ADT is beneficial.
Has anyone else waited six months for RT ?
We went into the meeting with a list of questions, but she covered all of them without us asking anything, so quite impressed.
Onwards and hopefully upwards.
