I have recently been diagnosed with PC, staged at T2 N0. During this last year I have been through diagnosis and chemoradio for oesophageal cancer. That is one of the more aggressive cancers, so I have been very lucky for its treatment to have been effective (so far). Paradoxically, it was following a PET scan (private) to establish that the Oesophageal C had gone (NHS was giving me no answer about the success or failure of their treatment!) a that a possible cancer was found in the prostate. Initially I wasn't too worried as I know that prostate C can be "lived with" for years without progression. However, I now see my consultant has now staged this as T2 N0, and I will be having a template perinneal biopsy in early January.
Is there anyhone here with an initial staging of T2 N0 for a prostate cancer and what was their prognosis, their actually experience, and progression of the illness? I don't know if that staging indicates it is towards the upper end of "aggressiveness", as it were, and that it is likely to progress quite quickly? I'm feeling quite worried, now, after the relief of the success of the treatment for my nasty oesophageal and being a bit sanguine about the PC. My first reaction of "ah well, PC is one of the 'least bad' ones to get" might now have been ill-judged?
Incidentally, when I have had the biopsy, what questions should I ask the consultant?
And have as Happy a Christmas as possible. I guess, one way and another, we should be glad to see the back end of 2020 - what a year for us all here: blinking covid, and on top of that we're all trying to deal with this disease. So let's hope that things are brighter in 2021. Best wishes, all.
