Hi all After 5 years of active surveillance my PSA is gradually rising from 6.78 to now 16. I have had 2 biopsies, 1 in 2020 picked up 1 area of 3+4, in 2024 only 3+3 was picked up. I have had 3 MRI's with no change in the 5 years, 69cc Prostate...
My treatment pathway has moved quickly in a few days with consecutive options appointments with an oncologist and with surgical team at Addenbrookes. I have chosen radical prostatectomy. One thing I wasn't prepared for was the surgeon asking about removal...
Hi all LH has not yet been formally diagnosed but with a PSA of 57 a cancer diagnosis is very likely. Today he s going for an MRI at our local hospital (Churchill, Oxford) and it seems that they use a Multi Parametric MRI Scanner which can also scan...
Hi All. Hope you are all okay. I have just been reading that sometimes if psa is now in the zeros(0.8) There is such a thing called intermittent treatment breaks. I have just started 3 monthly Prostrap injection and also take 2 Abiraterone each...
I have begun my radiotherapy treatment since 2 June to be completed by 27 June if anybody has completed thier radiotherapy treatments recently could you let me know if you had any side effects
Anyone been prescribed folic supplement for low folic acid anemia..hubby on hormone therapy ?
My husband completed radiotherapy in November 2023. He had his first injection in October with little side effects ,the odd hot flash . Second injection in April and within 2 weeks started to go downhill with the following symptoms ,unable to sleep, pain...
I was diagnosed with advanced PC in 2021 and told it cannot be cured. Have been on abiraterone since then. At my last appointment I was told that my medical team believed I was in remission. PSA undetectable for over 2 years bloods are all looking good...
My LH has just had 4th cycle of chemotherapy.He is tolerating it very well now that the dose has been reduced from 80% to 70%. Hormone therapy was changed from Degaralix to Prostap almost 3 months ago. Psa has dropped from 4,434 down to 2.3 today...
Hi I had been suffering a lot from my hormone therapy injections, both mentally and physically, trying to do everything I was told and read to do, I exercise, sleep reasonably well, eat okay but still felt weak and mentally down, I was dreading my third...
