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Hi everyone, I joined the Bladder Cancer group a few years back after my diagnosis and got sooooo much from it that I'm doing the same here on behalf of my dad. He was diagnosed with prostate cancer two years ago. Treatment has been successful but...
You will see from my profile that I had my follow up meeting with the urologist from the CT of the 18th July today and it was very dispiriting to say the least. I fully expected having been called in for a meeting that the results would have been looked...
Moobs growing with hormone treatment. What would anyone recommend for this?
Hello, had my three monthly blood test results today. All well on long term HT treatment, PSA still at 0.02. Nurse Specialist says the Royal College of something or other is recommending Adkal and Alendronic Acid tablets to prevent osteoporosis for...
I have not been on this site for 18 months or so, essentially since I made my decision to go with PROTON beam therapy, rather than the NHS offered PHOTON treatment. Going privately in London was, for me, the only reasonable offering. A 3 page NHS patient...
At his second oncology, appointment in November last year, DH was told "We will talk about radiotherapy next year." He saw the onco again in January and it was not mentioned. Since then, he has seen his specialist nurse once and a resident doctor once...
Hi there new to this , recently diagnosed prostate cancer , awaiting biopsy results , does anybody else feel lost .
A little update from me. I had my TWOC on Wednesday and it worked!!!! I am now catheter free, thank god. The first good thing that has happened to me for a long long time. I was very nervous about the whole thing and had convinced myself that it would...
Hi all, My husband finished 20 sessions of RT three weeks ago. He's in pain and has blood in his urine. Is it normal to have blood in the urine? Also, he's peeing a few times each hour and waking up during the night, affecting his sleep, and he has...
My question concerns side effects of triptorelin and enzalutamide controlling my stage 4 prostate cancer. Shortly after I was put on these drugs, I started getting numbness in my feet, often accompanied by burning or strong prickling sensations. Also...
