I’m new here I have stage four prostate cancer . I’m taking female home shots every six months along with medication I developed a large belly do to the shots. How can I get rid of this belly?
After 8 courses of chemo my husbands psa has gone from 4.5 to 9.6 his scan shows the lesions in his ribs and spine have not increased. He is stage 4. What has caused this increase
Hello all Its Les I have had the second PSA this June and that was the same as my last post 5.4 the and again this time 5.4. Nurse seem to think not to much to worry about so we put off MRI scan and have another PSA in September and go from there...
Hello Everyone We had an Oncologist review today 6 months from end of chemo.and after recent CT,MRI ,Bone scan. At 3months psa was 0.5 from 4432 .Today 0.26. "All areas have had an excellent response. Prostate is normal size. No areas requiring...
Any tips on hot flushes while on relugolix. just 3 days in and getting at least 1 an hour , is that standard? a bit sweating also. lasting about 2 or 3 minutes. it's the only medication they gave me so far. how are you all coping with it? mike....
Good Morning, I posted the following about 10 days ago. I'm sure there is a way to carry on the thread but I can't work it out so thanks to those that replied. We had the worst news in the consultation. The chemo had no effect whatsoever or at least...
Just rang the bell for my last (6th) chemotherapy session. Psa dropped from originally 256 down to 0.32. Having another scan in due course and another appointment in 3 weeks to see oncologist on what will happen next i.e. any trials or just the usual...
I raised this a couple of weeks ago, but it got lost in everything else that I was asking, so I'm trying again. All my husband's paperwork says T3 N1M0. I queried this because he has a lesion in his pelvic bone and has had a nodule in his lung, which...
i had my appoitment today to find out my pet scan results. {waiting for 2 weeks now} but alas it wasn;t with my oncologist but a junior doctor who couldn't tell me or was advised not to. said my oncologist will talk to me when i see him, but maybe not...
Hello all. just about to start my first dose of relugolix. [tomorrow] not on anything else so far. wondering what it's like, what to expect side effects wase? there seems to be patients on more than one medication. i was talking to david who is...
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