Curious as to what the timescales are from the GP referral to actual treatment?

Hello Murphy22 

The issue here is the NHS has around 215 different Trusts. Take off the ambulance and mental health trusts that leaves you with about 185. They all act differently - some are pretty fast and keep within the guidelines, most are way behind and none differentiate between a Gleason 6 and Gleason 10 - all are on the same waiting list!

You are lucky!! () - you have the lower of the Gleason 7's (3+4) as opposed to (4+3) so it's slow growing, the delay should not affect the final outcome.

If you are worried and you can drop everything at a moments notice you could contact the hospital and tell them you are available to accept a short notice cancellation if one come up.

I hope the above helps, if you require any further details or information regarding the above please don't hesitate to get back to me.

Best wishes - Brian

The pathway is different in every case. You will be fitted in as son as practically possible but the guidelines are not set in concrete.

This prostate cancer is a slow growing cancer so don’t worry. The choice is yours and the timings will be what they are.

Don't panic.

Good luck

Hi Murphy22 the initial tests have been carried out quite quickly. My take on the current delay is that you are relatively low risk and other Gleason 7, 8 and 9’s are getting priority.  I presume your PSA was fairly low as well.  The key is starting HT and I assume you will be on that soon after 28 May.  Usually a gap to allow the HT to work and then have RT a few months later.  Try and forget PCa for a while and enjoy your holiday (hope you are going somewhere nice).  

here in scotland I was around 150 days from urgent referal to first ADT Treatment. The target in Scottish NHS is the same as the rest of the UK which is 62 days.  Diagnosed end July last year and this coming friday is my first radiotherapy treatment of 20 fractions.. Dave