New area of research for me. Recently discovered that my prostate cancer has returned after radiotherapy in 2019. Just seen my oncologist who ran through the 2 options for me. Ongoing daily hormone tablets, Enzalutamide, or 6 sessions on chemo, Docetaxel...
Hi we had our first oncology meeting today - great news is that Pet scan showed no spread, so we were told it’s 3 years Relugolix and in a months time they are adding Abiraterone and a steroid. We have another consultation for that, but wondered if...
I recently posted saying that I had been lucky enough to have been offered Nano knife surgery. I had the day procedure on the 17th of December. I had to have a Catheter for 5 days, which was probably the worst part. I had blood in my Urine etc for a couple...
In February my PSA was 18.2. In March/April I had 5 doses of SABR and my PSA has now dropped to 10.4. I had, of course, hoped/imagined it would fall to o and was initially very alarmed but I THINK that such a drop a month after finishing SABR (without...
Hi everyone, Three years ago my husband had a prostatectomy Gleason 7 4+3 and a T3a. He was undetected for a year. Then had a rapidly rising PSA over 6 months 0.1,0.2,0.2 and 0.4. he finished radiotherapy and had two PSA’s of 0.2 and has now moved to...
Dear community, Thank you in advance for your time and insight. As background, I am in my 50s and have a direct male relative, father, who had prostate cancer (in his mid-sixties) resulting in the surgical removal of his prostate and additional treatment...
Hi all Hubby And I take a multivitamin and a probiotic capsule each day. Have read that you should not take antioxidants while on radiotherapy so he was going to stop vitamins from tomorrow (2 weeks before treatment) but wondered if he can continue...
My husband has advanced prostrate cancer. He's had chemo and has been on darolutamide for about a year. We met his consultant for first time yesterday - he said that darolutamide is no longer working but if husband wants more chemo is happy to let him...
Today my interaction with the hospital treating my cancer hit an all time low when I realised that PALs has no role in getting justice for patients but protecting thier employers. I have explained that I have numerous issues with my surgeon the worst...
Good morning all, I've been on darolutamide for 1 year 9 months as part of triplet therapy. Last Thursday evening I experienced what I think was a migraine (never had one of these before so not 100% sure). It involved a severe headache and painful...
