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Hello lovely people I managed to get a go out to dad today , did all relevant checks and was actually quite happy with the observations he did eveything seemed ok apart from dads frailty due to not eating or if he is it’s tiny amounts, and he did have...
Went to the doctor today to go over the blood test results from last week... Oct 27 - PSA 7.87 Free PSA 2.40 Free Ratio 30.5% Nov 11 - PSA 7.87 Free PSA 1.74 Free Ratio 22.1% The PSA stayed exactly the same, but the Free PSA changed for worse...
So, after my urgent referral right back on 28 July, my robotic prostatectomy is scheduled for Friday and I have to be at hospital for 11:30am for a 1pm kick-off. Hoping I will only be in hospital one night. First GA as an adult so a little nervous...
The consultants did a mdm meeting for my dad who has prostate cancer spread to his hip and 3rd vertebra on Wednesday last week , they then rang me ( as my dad isn’t picking up his phone ) to arrange a appointment for a mri scan , so I’ve managed to get...
Hello All, I haven't received my official diagnosis yet. Hoping to meet the urologist this week. With the hundreds of scenarios going through my head this week... One option I might take is a prostatectomy depending what the doctor tells me. Brian...
Hi all. Can anybody out there just throw me some advice. I'm on AS, but my cancer has gone from Stage 1 gleason 3+3, to Stage 2 gleason 3+4, in the space of 2 months. They have now given me the choice of the 4 options: 1: Stay on AS 2: Hifu which...
Something that keeps cropping up on this site, and has never (not that I have seen) produced a definitive answer. Should, say, Prostap be administered every 12 weeks or every 3 months ? I was talking to my Urologist yesterday and he, in passing, came...
Next Monday it will be husbands 3rd attempt at this!! 1st time it was the bowel, today the bladder!! Trouble is the hospital is 25 miles away, bad enough, but it's getting a parking space is the worst!!....and thats even with a Blue Badge. Then if he...
Hello new hear but already found the threads very informative. Our dear dad since Sept has been having tests and following biopsy was last week told of the Gleason score of 9 and that cancer has spread outside of the prostate. Pet scan was last Thursday...
Earlier this year I was diagnosed with a rather rare form of prostate cancer. I have now completed 20 days of radiotherapy … I have no idea if it worked or not. I want to share one of the things I learnt during radiotherapy and the action I took - it...
