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My husband's diagnosis is Grade group 5 Gleason 9 (4+5) Scans, and biopsy indicate T3b, N1, ?M0/M1a, latest PSA 9.6. Lesion present, seminal vesciles and abnormal lymph nodes, bone scan clear. Waiting for a PSMA pet scan to complete investigations....
Hello, Am interested in knowing how others dealt with the dilemma in choosing between surgery and radiotherapy please. Just turned 70, diagnosed with locally advanced pc. Two years ago I had a biopsy that showed as clear so have been taken by surprise...
Good news today OH first PSA reading since completing 33 sessions of salvage radiotherapy down to 0.05 - so relieved. Seeing Oncologist tomorrow to discuss HT as still having problems with feet.
Hi all I have had a few days when I could not think about this in any depth but today I am overthinking again. Given the delay in LH's biopsy (5 weeks if it goes ahead on 27th), the large lesion in his prostate (37mm) and the large area touching the...
Hi all We are almost 3 years in . Psa 0.03 or something after radiation and HT. He still won't tell his family. I don't want to be hanging out with them as I feel complicit. End up barely talking as everything in out lives has been turned upside down...
Hi all psa tested in April at 4.59 so sent down the cancer pathway. MRI and Biopsy in May , T2a Gleason 3-4 confirmed. MDT at original hospital June and referred to Leeds for Brachytherapy. Another MDT there last week and today got a phone appointment...
Hi everyone, I haven't posted since my husbands journey with prostate cancer began April last year.What a year it's been, highs, lows and everything in between! Now we have started another phase where our family business has disintegrated, our savings...
Hi, I am just about to have my third Prostate-3 injection of a 2 year course and I have experienced many of the documented side effects to one degree or another. What I am having difficulty finding out is how these side effects may progress over time...
So far no real problems...just trying to adapt to the fatigue. This Thursday I have the camera down the little chap boy am I looking forward to that.hopedfully the ht works for ages. Nice to see everyone doing relatively well.
4 weeks ago today we received a letter from a junior doctor stating that my husband's MRI showed that he had "prostate volume and changes consistent with prostate malignancy"and "a bone lesion suggestive of bony metastases". As you can imagine, this came...
