I have just started on Hormone Therapy (I haven't got used to calling it HT yet) and am taking advice from many here - thank you all of you. The best advice is that I need to tackle the things I can and put aside worry on the ones I can't. So, it's...
I just received an email from Maggie's saying that they are opening three new centres very soon. You can read it here: updates.maggies.org/.../AQiQyxUQ0ogMGO-Fxg_3pycvHnTIjOsbjQLGr8HGxLh36YGziLXCUE4yuWV9dw
I am now one month post Bracytherapy treatment and in general, I am doing OK but this weekend I have felt very fatigued and been off work for the last 2 days. I've taken this time to do nothing and sleep to try and get some energy back. I was just wondering...
At the moment it can take a long time to bring new treatments to the market because of the criteria of looking at Overall Survival (OS) as the key objective. With the latest research they are finding that a better marker could be the Biochemical Recurrence...
Hi everyone well we saw the consultant this morning and it was as I expected, George has an aggressive form of prostate cancer on his pelvic bone, he explained that this was incureable but treatable, he is starting him on Enzalutamide along with his hormone...
Hi everyone it's been a while since I posted here, but tomorrow is the day we see the oncologist and I'm here in bed and my tummy is in knots, trying to be positive and at the same time getting myself into a tangle. George does not seem to be neither...
I've just had my biopsy this morning at 11:30 which was done by making two pencil sized holes in my perineum through which the biopsy needles were passed. The procedure wasn't painful aside from the anesthesia going in as it had to be into the prostate...
hi i posted on this a few months ago and have been following everyone’s stories My husband is two weeks into four weeks radiation and is experiencing bowel problems. He feels he needs to pass wind but sometimes passes water with blood and seems to...
I probably need to say why what I am going to outline below is a thing for me (not a big thing, but a puzzle). My career for 40 years was working for a bank. Much of this time I became used to calculating interest in numbers of days. Given that bankers...
First time posting so forgive me if this seems a bit rambling. My partner (55) was diagnosed with PC stage 4 in March 2024, Gleason 9, mets in spine, pelvis and chest. Started triplet therapy but had adverse reaction to Docetaxel so that’s stopped...
