Hi All, I have seen a few posts on triplet therapy. my understanding from prostate UK is that you can only have triplet therapy if you have been on hormone therapy for less than 12 weeks and you haven’t started Apalutamide or similar. my dad has...
Hi all, I have been posting about my husband who was due to start Enzalutamide alongside his digarelix injections. He had a starting PSA of 1356 and after 3 months on digarelix his PSA has risen to 1500, they are now saying he could be in the 2% of...
I am in turmoil which treatment to have diagnosed gleason 3 + 4 so many side effects I am 65 and no symptons change my mind every other day seen surgeon waiting to see radiation plus hormone guy then i have to decide Is the radiation plus hormone treatment...
Hello everyone, I thought I will report on our appointment today as we learnt facts we did not know: Firstly Jacob is doing well at the moment ( we knew that). We did not know that he has multiple lesions because the bones scan report only counted...
I was diagnosed with advanced metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer early 2023. Gleason score 9, stage 4 with metastases in some bones. No surgery but I've had radiotherapy and current treatment is 160mg Enzalutamide daily and Decapeptyl jabs...
Hello everyone. I'm seven fractions into my RT treatment now. Everything is going very smoothly so far, but my only concern is that, during treatment, the Linac machine stops at a certain point in the process and has to be reset by the radiographers...
There re wise, experienced and snitove folk here, so I wonder what your thoughts are. Robotic surgery in Feb 2018, Gleason 3plus 4 PSA became detectable August 2019, and has risen in tiny increments, plateauing in 2023 at 0.08, and is now 0.09 ...
Hi All, Today my dad was prescribed Apalutamide alongside his current treatment Zoladex. I have a few questions. 1. Do the side effects differ from Zoladex? So far he has had hot flushes, feeling more sleepy and difficultly maintaining muscle despite...
Having been sailing along happily on Prostap for the past 8 years, at my hubby’s last review his consultant said that the PSA had jumped suddenly from 0.9 to 4.5. Compared with some counts, it’s relatively very low but in his case the cancer is aggressive...
Hi CT scan revealed considerable spread of disease in pelvis, lymph nodes and liver, so docetaxel stopped. I’m going onto another chemo drug but not quite sure when. I’ve now had no chemo for 4 weeks, so concerned that cancer will continue to spread...
