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Morning everyone I had a meeting with my oncologist and he informed me of the above which surprised me, as it had levelled off at 33 .Does this mean the docetaxel has failed?We are now going to ct scans etc. And a itch to daralutomide?spelling or enzalutomide...
Hi. Last August I finished two years of ADT following radiation. In Feb 2025 my PSA was 0.25, my Nadir but had risen to 0,58 in August. I am going in for a test tomorrow and I wondered what would be considered a good range. I was a Gleason 9 and although...
So, I am post-surgery now, it was Friday 12 December. After two nights in hospital, the second due to producing too much urine output. I got a relatively good sleep last night, disturbed only by needing to check my catheter and bags were working. ...
Since I last wrote about dad , things haven’t improved massively unfortunately he’s still in bed and not eating a great deal at all , I often wonder if I wasn’t looking after him what the hell he would do , we finally got to the bottom of his horrible...
Hi I'm here for advise and help really. Little background story. I hadn't seen my dad for 2-3 months when I went back down in September I noticed he had lost an awful lot of weight, didn't seem quite with it and was repeating himself. My dad is 68 dementia...
Hi, My dad has been diagnosed with localized intermediate-risk prostate cancer, specifically Gleason 4+3 (Grade Group 3). His pathology report showed 3+4 but at the urology meeting the guy said it’s 4+3. they have started him on Relugolix 120...
Hello everyone, hubby had a PSA of 16, had MRI & finally a biopsy 6 weeks ago. The results are back (we haven’t been told what they are) but MRI shows a 1.8cm lesion extending into seminal vessel and neuro vascular bundle. the MDT is this Thursday,...
Hi all First time on the forum. I'm 62 and have be en diagnosed with stage 3b prostate cancer with a gleason score of 9. I t's been quite a long journey so far, referred in April but have finally got a date for my RALP on January 6th. I was put...
Hello all. UK based. I had a routine blood test (I'm on TRT) 6 weeks ago and PSA was 5.3, I went to the doctors 2 weeks later who did a rectal exam and ruled out an enlarged prostate. A second blood test which was 4.9. They did another blood test again...
We saw a very nice Consultant urologist and nurse today. We more or less knew what to expect but it was good to collect the pills and get started on a treatment plan. We didn’t get a lot of info on the actual cancer as the Consultant didn’t have the...
