Hello everyone thanks so much for the reassurance recently on my first post, so yes met with the consultant, it’s strangely calm now knowing - not knowing was way worse my partners Gleason is 7, stage 3, he was started on hormone tablets & injections...
Hi Folks, I posted some time ago about the poor communication with patients during their journey. As a result of my abandoned RALP on 4th November due to previous scarring and intestine fusing to my abdomen, I became subject of a tertiary referral to...
I was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2014. Since then I have had radiotherapy and was on a stampede drug trial. The trial ended 2 years ago and I was then put on chemo but that had to be stopped after three weeks as it was having a bad effect on my...
Hello again. Has anyone (other than EddieL) had their radiotherapy at Sheffield Weston Park? My OH is about 11 days into his Bicalutamide HT and in fine with everything. i am concerned though that we’re not in the right postcode for the top cancer...
Hi All, my husband has stage 4b, Gleason 10. He got diagnosed last January with a PSA of 186 and after triplet therapy, we got down to 0.03 two months ago. He has PSA tests every month, and last month there was a slight jump to 0.05 which we tried not...
Morning everyone I had a meeting with my oncologist and he informed me of the above which surprised me, as it had levelled off at 33 .Does this mean the docetaxel has failed?We are now going to ct scans etc. And a itch to daralutomide?spelling or enzalutomide...
The last time I posted was in reference to bilateral focal hifu, which was what I thought I would have. I would like to share my experience with you in the hope it helps someone. However I was to have 'Nanoknife'. Because my tumour was bilateral they...
I just want to wish everyone a Happy Christmas and a healthy New Year. Waiting for the blood results and phone call was hard this time and for some reason I was very stress, possible because our eldest is not well and I have been worrying about her...
I haven’t posted here in a long time. I did initially when my husband was diagnosed in 2023 with prostate cancer. PSA 252 and abnormal DRE. Started immediately on HT and then had CT scan showing hot spot on pelvic lymph node, bone scan normal. Biopsy...
Hi recently diagnosed and confused. I had a PSA score of 10,97 in September. Iv had a CT, MRI, bone scan & Pet scan. My biopsy confirmed Prostate cancer with a Gleason score of 7 and the consultant said it’s a grade 2. Luckily it’s not spread. On Wednesday...
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