Someone who has just been diagnosed with prostate cancer

Hi VaperSupreme, welcome to the community.

I don’t know anything about the hospitals you mention but can you maybe find out more about his diagnosis as it will help us answer your questions.

Has he had a biopsy and what were the Gleason scores from it?

Has he had an MRI to check where the cancer is e.g.is it well confined within the prostate or near the edge?

I presume he’s had a bone scan which shows no bone involvement from what you say.

The multi disciplinary team will look at all the test results etc. and come up with recommendations for treatment which could range from surgery, external beam radiation with hormone therapy, brachytherapy with hormone therapy, brachytherapy followed by external beam radiotherapy alongside hormone therapy.

If you click on my profile you’ll see I had surgery in 2015, followed by hormone therapy from December 2016 to April 2019 and external beam radiotherapy in March/April 2017.

There is more information on  here too https://www.macmillan.org.uk/information-and-support/prostate-cancer

Best wishes.

Dear Ido4,

Thank you for the reply. With regard to the questions, I will talk to my friend and get the answers to you as soon as possible

Once again, thank you for your reply.

Vapersupreme.

Hi VS

A couple of good hospitals in London for PC is Guy's nrLondon Bridge and also UCL.

Don't know much about Bart's but it's got plenty of history

Steve

Dear Steve,

Thanks for the information.

VS

Hi

Whatever or were ever his treatment will take place they will have his well fair as a priority and his treatment will be first class, so give your friend a all the help he needs, he may have cancer but he's still a friend.

take care

joe

To anyone looking for a 'good' hospital for their treatment, you can look at the Care Quality Commission's ratings to judge whether the hospital is right for you. 

For example, the Royal Marsden London is rated "Outstanding" but my hospital, Pinderfields, is rated "In Need of Improvement".  Simply search for the hospital using the boxes half way down the page.

https://www.cqc.org.uk/what-we-do/services-we-regulate/find-hospital

Thank you for the link. This will be useful.