Had my surgery on 2nd May. Was down for nearly five hours and all went well. I was in hospital for 2 days, as they could not get my pain under control. Coming up to 4 weeks post surgery and am doing ok. Starting to walk a bit further each time I go out...
hi, my name is peter and 75, i had 18 months of hormone injections and 20 visits to the fantastic lingen davies unit in shrewsbury. i am now nearly 6 months on after my treatment and the side effects are really pissing me off, such as hot flushes day...
Hello everyone It’s a while since I have posted and after milling around the Forum with regards to proctitis I haven’t really found much regarding this. Frank had his Radiotherapy back in November 2025 and had most of the pre-warned effects during...
Hi my husband finished chemo in dec 25 and radiotherapy finished on March 3rd 2026 after 20 sessions, he has been on relugolix since July 25, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer that had gone to 2 lymph nodes in prostate, Gleason 4 + 4. he is now...
I’m trying to keep positive day to day, but the waiting for results and not knowing what will come next is so hard. My husband’s bone scan was 17 days ago and his CT scan 12 Days ago and we haven’t heard anything so far. Biopsy was only a week ago so...
My husband went into hospital on Tuesday with an infection. Today, after I made lots of fuss, I have been told the prostate cancer has metastasised to his whole body. Life depends upon how well his body is able to cope with antibiotics to treat the infection...
Hi all. please check out my profile on my OH for further detail but in short my oh is T4, N1, advanced, agressive PC, diagnosed May 2022. he was treated with chemo, radio and has been on hormones therapy since and is doing great. He gets a yearly ct scan...
Hi I just had my planning session last week and was surprised that they now in our area needed bladder empty for the scan.I was wondering why the change.I will ask when my first RT starts.
Well the long anticipated results day. What a farse. to start, a three o’clock appointment turned into a wait until 5.30. Then the consultant said to his ?nurse have we not had the mdt meeting. NO was the reply. It’s tomorrow!!! so, my head was mashed...
Just as I was settling into thinking that I may have miraculously escaped, the sniper got me from a distance of 2 years. I had reckoned that the longer I could run, the less chance of being hit and at 18 months post op I was still PSA <0.025. I had...
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