Today, 16th into 20th day of my radiotherapy I woke to a day that I have never experienced before in my life, I found it difficult to climb two flights of stairs, out of breath, at the start of my therapy I could bound up them, my mind seems to want to...
After my husband finished his 1st round of radiotherapy once a week for six weeks, the following week, he started to get pain in his back & pelvis, he had mri & ct scan, again weeks waiting for results. His metastasis wasn’t playing game & he had one...
I shall forever be grateful to everyone on this forum who has given me input and feedback throughout my Prostate Cancer journey from the intitial journey began for me in January 2024. I appreciate your patience with any "daft questions" I had, and the...
….do dad has been given max of a year, maybe a lot sooner, to live. It has spread to his bones, last psa had gone from 32 - 84 in six weeks. He won’t have any further treatment. Chemo wasn’t successful so it was stopped half way. Anyway he now has incontinence...
Hello everyone! Although I am not active on the site I keep an eye on you guys and as far as I can see all seem in good spirit and keep having good fun on the site! We are OK. Jacob is still very active but come the evening he is tired so very tired...
Hubby had his catheter out on monday. I know its very early days. And i know it can take months. But just hoping to hear some positive feedback. He is 53 years old - which i hope is in his favour. At the moment he can only go 20/30 mins before needing...
Hi , I finished 20 fractions of rt 2 months ago, I don’t really understand how the radiation carries on working after your treatment has finished,and also how long does this process last , thanks in advance
Hi all well my hubby has prostate cancer that has spread to his pelvis but now is finding it hard to control his bladder we have another appointment scheduled with the oncologist on the 9 dec we are by both struggling with his diagnosis which was 12 weeks...
Has anyone had experience with treating neuroendocrine prostate cancer (NEPC)? I had two biopsies two years ago, and both pathologists reported finding NEPC. It is an relatively rare and aggressive variation which cannot be successfully treated with conventional...
What you guys think about diet ? I'm trying to decide my path in terms of diet ,according to some the turn to a more vegetarian diet is the answer, other say keto is better, others the Mediterranean diet ,a little bit in between the other 2 ,really don...
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