Hi I have asked this question before but did not get an answer. Has anyone been through the 5 day radiotherapy program and if so what were your experiences and symptoms afterwards? Kind Regards Gary
Hello all I wanted to share my experience with hot flushes. My radiotherapy finished last November Hormone Jabs finished in March. The hot flushes have changed now and even before the heatwave started my core temperature felt as if I was in the sauna...
Does anyone know if once you have finished chemo if you then automatically have RT or does it just depend. Thank you
Can any one say if my results ie 3+4=7. Staging T3b N0 locally advanced high risk prostate cancer means it has come outside my prostate to lymph node’s? Just confused as a Macmillan nurse said it had when I spoke Friday to her, cheers
Morning gang as my treatment plan moves forward starting brachytherapy followed by radiotherapy how long would I expect to be off work on the dreaded SSP
Hi gang I’ve been a bit busy recently deciding on my life plan but here’s a update T2 Gleston 3/4 psa 52 Been on Hormone Therapy now two months no side effects apart from hot flushes . Originally offered surgery after many theory’s decided not for me...
Page two lol , I’d like the seed brachytherapy to be honest , colonoscopy camera result was favourable but after four to five weeks I’m still waiting on the 18 biopsies I had in and around colon , still sat on a consultants desk secretary said last 5...
Hi gang, it’s been a while whilst I hustled the NHS for my biopsy operation, but that all went ok. Just got my biopsy report: Gleason 4-3 (60% - 40%) 10/19 cores Max length 7.8mm cribriform present no EPE no IDC Adenocarcinoma Seminal...
My husband was diagnosed 10 months ago, with PSA level of 515. Cancer has spread to spine. He is on HT (enzalutamide and prostap injections) and PSA down to 19 now, but that seems so high compared to the numbers I'm reading in posts here. RT was suggested...
Hi all been put on hormone therapy at 55 years old with suspected advance prostate cancer t2c n1 with psa 99.02 but no biopsy results as yet. really concerned about the affects this will have on me. Don’t know what to do kind regards john
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