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Hello All, first post here so forgive any naivety shown. Had my PC diagnosed on 9th August and started on Bicalutamide same day on a three week course. Received my Decapeptyil 12 week IM injection on Monday 19th. My PSA was 12, Gleason score 7 T2N0Mx...
Hi. Just saying hello and thank you for this forum. My husband 60 had a PSA test 5.5, PRADs 4. Biopsy multiple Gleason 3+3 in all parts of prostrate. He’s opted for robotic surgery. Op is in May. I’m worried about post op complications. My husband has...
My psa has risen but not to alarmingly. My oncologist is not unduly worried and we have agreed to carry on with bicalutomide and request a pet scan.. he says the detectable cancer is so small it do n't warrant chemotherapy. He's trying to avoid any treatment...
Hello, I’m hoping for some advice/answers on behalf of my Father In Law as hours/days of researching online hasn’t come up with much. A brief history - after being diagnosed with prostate cancer he had a successful prostatectomy a couple of years ago...
Hello Everyone Seems I still cannot get a break, just did a stint in hospital for nine days where I had 22 pints of fluid drained from me. Before that I had to stop my chemo, I had four treatments and it was, to say the least more than I could take...
It appears that 20 sessions of radiotherapy is the norm. I know that there are a few cases of just 5 treatments (higher individual dose) but 20 seems to be the most common (i had 20 sessions in May). I understand that the norm used to be iver 30 (my bother...
Hi everyone, Well I said I would update once I got my first blood test after Salvage radiotherapy. To recap had radical prostatectomy Nov 2023 PSA 9 weeks after RP was 0.10 and climbed to 0.22 by mid March 2024 Elected for SRT. Started 20 fractions...
I can't believe that it is now one year since husband had his first of 6 chemo sessions. For anyone about to go through this then I just want to say it doesn't have to be awful. At the first session within a couple of minutes husband started to get hot...
Very few words here, I have updated my profile which is a diary from my first GP contact to post radiotherapy, you can read my profile by clicking on the avatar to above this entry. My aim in publishing this is hopefully to allay the fears of those facing...
Hi Im new here but sadly not new to cancer! my dad had a radical prostectomy about 16 yrs ago and was given 5 years to live. He is still here but in the last three months his psa has gone from 3 - 17. He has had a cat scan and an mri and Xray’s and...
