First Chemo session today, I’m to go and kill some cancer!
My husband is now 3/5 weeks post radiation and I posed previously about his side effects of bloody liquid from his bowels and difficulty in starting a wee and the feeling that his bladder is never empty The kind people on her advised me to contact the...
My oncology appointment was brought forward to today, by the establishment of a new clinic. I saw the Medical Oncologist and Radiologist and it was, all in all, a very positive experience. She said that it was going to be a curative process: 6...
July 2018 diagnosed with Prostate Cancer at age of 56 (PSA = 21 and Gleason 4+3) November 2018 radical robot assisted prostatectomy and started hormone injections. January 2020 started 6 rounds of chemotherapy - isolated during lockdown! January...
My partner is having Brachytherapy soon, he's been on hormone treatment for 3 months. I've tried searching this site for posts on Brachytherapy but it returns unrelated posts for other types of cancer. Has anyone here had Brachytherapy and have any tips...
Hi Everyone and hello summer! We received a letter from the oncologist ( not our usual one but a new one) full of errors following a telephone consultation. I follow it up with our usual oncologist who invited us for face to face next week as he is...
Hello, I hope you have all had lovely weekends. We found out recently my dad may be able to potentially take part in the STAMPEDE 2 trial. This would involve 177 Lu-PSMA-617: a nuclear medicine therapy. It would be along side HT We don’t have any...
Ok i couldn’t sleep last night again and checked and double checked OH. Biopsy paperwork . It says 6 biopsies right side and 6 left . When we had our meeting with the SN. He said he had 6 done in total and OH said yea I could hear 6 being collected. Can...
Hi, My hubby was DX with low grade prostrate cancer about 4 years ago, so was put on active surveillance, unfortunately, his last PSA, scan and biopsy revealed it had grown..this came a few months after he had finished his tonsil and base of tongue...
Finally I have an appointment to see an oncologist, next Wednesday. It’ll be almost 8 weeks since I starred HT when I see him. i was told at my second appointment on the 20th May that radiotherapy isn’t an option in my case. All the involvement is in...
