Pearls trials

Hi

Have your staging ? Has the PC escaped from the gland and spread etc? 

Please give us more details az things may not be as bad as you feel.

Regards

Stuart

Hi. Yes the bugger escaped and stuck to my lymph nodes. The main worry was being metastatic, which, fortunately, I have thus far avoided. I'm due to start rt anytime soon .

Bassplayer  Have a look at the thread titled: "Journeyone - Radiotherapy". There's a lot of helpful tips there.

Hi, just found your post after searching for informaton about the PEARLS trial. My husband was diagnosed last November following a PSA of 182. His diagnosis is T3b N1 M1a Gleason 4+5 prostate adenocarcinoma 

He has been asked if he wants to participate in the PEARLS trial and he is really unsure. How did you find the trial?  

Thanks

Hi Annieuk75 a warm welcome to the forum, PEARL was an option for me leading up to treatment as i had advanced PCa with iliac "pelvic" lymph nodes left and right involvement, But a few weeks before it was due to start my cancer had spread so i was unsuitable, We decided on aggressive RT 70gy aimed at the whole pelvic region, which was successful. Best wishes to you and your husband. take care.

Eddie

Hi. I found the whole PEARLS trial very easy. It was part of my regular radiotherapy, I had one treatment per week as part of my month of treatment, that's it.

As a result my psa dropped to 14 and now, with regular medication, I am at 0.9 and still going down.

 I'm tired, alot, my hip aches and I still get hot flushes( menopause I call it), but overall I am very happy with the way things are going.. if you are unsure, please ask his specialist about possible side effects...

Cheers

Tris