Hi I had aquablasion a month ago but I’ve just been told I have cancer and it was in 5% of the biopsy taken. What does this mean please? Does this mean it’s caught early? I’m just five years cancer free from oesophageal cancer so I’m worried. My surgeon...
Hi guys I think I've read somewhere that gas can be a problem during rt ,I start mine in a couple of weeks and I am.always gassy is there anything I can do to fix this and is this correct. Thanks
I’ve been taking Tamsulosin since July 2023 when I was diagnosed with an enlarged prostate. At the time I’d wake up in the night and had problems urinating. Following this I was diagnosed with Gleason 4+5=9 but no spread. I hace 6 monthly hormone injections...
Hi my dads been having hormone treatment for prostrate cancer, he’s due to have radiotherapy in August in the hope he’s going to be cured it’s hasn’t spread thank fully and just inside the prostrate gland my question is he’s had a little bit of blurred...
Hi ! I haven’t seen many posts regarding the use of Lutetium 177 treatment and this of course makes me curious on how this type of treatment is handled / implemented within the health service in UK and of course in other nations The treatment has...
This is really not important on a scale of things but we need to make a decision. We have got a holiday cottage booked in Kent for the first week in September. We need to pay the balance on the booking in 2 weeks time. LH had his MRI last night and...
My partner had a prostate biopsy 2 weeks ago he has now been invited to a meeting at our local hospital with a specialist urology nurse, is there a difference between this and seeing a doctor or consultant
Hi everyone! I posted a while ago when my lovely dad was diagnosed, but I can’t find the original post so I’m starting a new one. Bit of background: My Dad visited the doctors after having some symptoms mainly needing to go to the toilet more often...
So I had a meeting yesterday with the consultant, he had the MRI results and ran through them very quickly. He didn't seem concerned at all, but advised a biopsy given the slightly elevated psa and borderline density. Had the biopsy and await the...
Hi all, Had my meeting yesterday followed by a Biopsy. 52 year old. The consultant was very good and said he had no concerns given the MRI results. But given the density being right on the limit and PSA being slightly raised he would do the biopsy...
