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I've been now diagnosed for about 5 weeks--69 years old and relatively fit. Exercise often. I had a biopsy 4 weeks ago yesterday and confirmed. Gleason score of 7 with six of twelve samples showing cancer. Two showing 6 and the rest were 7s. Notable BPH...
Hi guys! It's possible that this subject has been raised in past messages, although I can't see a way to search this Forum. I had low-dose rate brachytherapy at the beginning of November and have been on Tamsulosin since then. Since the brachytherapy...
Hi All, Firstly must say there’s some kind, helpful and knowledgeable people on here, have spent a fair few days on here just looking through posts and have learnt a lot so thank you all. My brief story is went into Doctors on Christmas Eve after...
Good evening people. I am 5 weeks post prostatectomy and everything I thought was going well has just gone belly up. i knew there was going to be incontinence following the prostatectomy but thought I had swerved that one. Over the initial two weeks...
Hi all I finished my initial course of tablets 3 weeks ago and have had my second monthly hormone injection,I've started getting up 2 or 3 times in the night and have been struggling a bit to start to pee it does get better in the day should I be telling...
Today I received a letter for a telephone appointment with my consultant next month to “discuss my recent scans/tests.” I phoned the hospital and got put through to the consultant’s secretary. I asked her was this phone appointment dealing with my actual...
A question to those with much more knowledge than myself. How many scans should my hospital have on record from my 20 sessions of RT? My own thoughts are that there should be at least 20 + the one from the planning scan but I can stand corrected corrected...
. Normal Treatment (Outside METRO Study) Radiation Therapy: Standard radiation to the prostate: 3 Gy x 20 treatments Focused on local control of the prostate Hormonal Treatment: GnRH analog – stops testosterone (which drives the cancer) Abiraterone...
I have been on HT for a couple of months, for locally advanced Pca, and am expecting to receive RT in the future. Urine flow has been negatively affected, due to swelling of the prostate, and I am taking Alfuzosin tablets. The side effects of this med...
1 year on from Prostatectomy. Just updated my profile which I am using as a diary. To summarise, PSA 0.01, I'm continent and the ED recovery is a work in progress. Read profile for more detail.
