My MRI is due soon. I have received the letter with the booklet. It doesn't say it will be a Multiparametric MRI. The booklet mentions the possibility of contrast, ie "we may give you an injection of contrast agent" Do they always give contrast? If...
My husband was told by phone in March he had a low grade Gleason 6 and would be monitored yearly. a week later by phone told sorry been looked at at a weekly meeting by consultants that i5 was not a 6 it was a 8 so would be operated on to remove prostrate...
Husband was diagnosed in April with a PSA of 59.9 and tomorrow he has his 4 th chemo session. He also has 3 monthly hormone injections and daily daralutamide tablets. He had his bloods done yesterday and his PSA has dropped to 0.3. There are no words...
19/09/23 - I had my 20th session of RT treatment at Birmingham QE. Thankfully I haven't suffered bad side effects, no fatigue/tiredness, my main side effect related to toilet issues. Frequent urge to urinate day & night getting up 4-5 times. My bowels...
Hi. I have recently been diagnosed PSA 7.5, 20 biopsies 1 Gleason 6 and 1 Gleason 7.. all 3 specialists urologist, oncologist and surgeon recommended active surveillance, which I agreed to, I had my first PSA since diagnosis 2 days ago and has risen to...
According to news reports 5 day radiotherapy without HT may come in soon,got to be good news! for those its available to. I did ask about this ,when deciding on RT,but was told ,not yet available at Cheltenham Oncology,perhaps things will change? ...
Hi Guys D iagnoses Gleason 6 Psa 2.7 PSA to date 3.1 third time that it has been creeipng up. On Active surveillance Just had my Three monthly chat with my nurse she says nothing to worry about with the PSA levels at the moment. I asked her about...
Should I be concerned about these timescales? From a blood test in July for another reason, my local hospital inadvertently discovered I had a psa level of 13.1. For some reason they delayed notifying me of this until over 2 months later. Valuable time...
Hi I had my prostrate removed by keyhole about 10 weeks ago and only just been to have my blood tested ready to have a phone call of my consultant October 3 to see if alls well will let you know the outcome
Husband is currently having chemo plus takes daralutamide tablets twice a day and has decapeptyl hormone injections every 3 months. I note that some of you are taking extra medication for things like bones etc. Sometimes I feel as if our oncologist is...
