My husband commences chemotherapy on Friday as part of triplet therapy. He has been kn tummy hormone injections for 3 months. Yesterday he had his worse day ever he said he wasn't in pain but felt so unwell he was very emotional by the evening sobbing...
I had my RARP on 12 December, staples out 24 December and Catheter out 29 December. Have been making a very good recovery, no apparent inconvenience. However, yesterday morning my right testicle swelled up massively and was extremely painful and I...
Hi Everyone, hope all is well....this is a delicate subject but would really appreciate some help/advice as the NHS in my opinion are poor at offering up front info /advice / counselling on procedures which affect dramatically quality of life and certainly...
After trying Sage tablets and Evening Primrose oil - both of which made no difference at all I mentioned to my Oncology consultant at my last telephone consultation that the hot sweats were getting beyond a joke. Usually have to change my clothes twice...
I am pensioner newly diagnosed with cancer i need help understanding what benefits am I entitled to.
Hi be diagnosed with prostate cancer I’ve seen a consultant and waiting for oncologist to Get in touch, but I’m worried would be cancer grow within that two weeks I have been offered HD and RT O Surgery Thank God
Hello, Paul has been taking HT since July, Abireratone and Predisolone since October....all good Last 2 telephone appts with nurse (Nov & Dec), Paul brought up question about bone protection, both times advised he would be sent information about Alendronic...
hi, First of all I'd like to say how much finding this forum helped inform me and make my early stages/tests a little less scary. I'm 59 and had slightly elevated PSA of 4.7, which resulted in an MRI PI-RADS score 3 so went forward with biopsy. ...
Hello, I’m a newbie and my hubbie was recently diagnosed with stage 4 PC, Gleason 8. We are still awaiting CT and bone scan results before a full treatment plan can be decided, but in the meantime he’s started HT and coping ok apart from the extreme fatigue...
Hi All, my husband was diagnosed with stage 4b prostate cancer in January. Has done triplet therapy and PSA has gone down from 186 to 0.05 (it was 0.03 last month, so a tiny increase but hopefully just a blip). But he started getting shoulder pain about...
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