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Hi all , FRIDAY was d day at Leeds st James hospital regarding any treatment with me having Crohn’s and passed opps re resections of my bowel, walked in thinking he just going to say same as the other three consultants at three hospitals and won’t risk...
Hi all This is for a friend of a friend so don't have a lot of detail. He was diagnosed with PC some years ago and has been on AS since the diagnosis . Then about 1 year ago he was diagnosed with bladder cancer , apparently not to do with the PC....
Following a prostatectomy in 2021 and radiotherapy in 2023 unfortunately my husband’s PSA is rising with each blood test, albeit slowly. To try and identify where the cancer had spread to, my husband’s consultant ordered a further bone and CT scan, both...
Anyone else got this type of advanced prostate cancer and is there hope for a few more years? Regards Neil
I am 86 years old, fit ,active and mentally alert. Here is a list of events that happened to me recently in chronological order: 1) March 2024: Noted first blood in urine. 2) April 2024: Cystoscopy procedure found abnormal tissue on prostate urethra...
Doctors excited about targeted prostate cancer therapy, but can't prescribe it yet Nicole Ireland Sat, July 6, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EDT · 5 min read The Canadian Press Dale Cousins was thrilled when he...
Hi everyone, I am new here ans just after some support. 2 weeks ago my partner was diagnosed with prostate cancer, Gleason score 9. He did a PET scan privately as NHS not moving fast enough to our liking and sadly it showed that the cancer had spread...
Hi All. I've been on HT for a year - degarelix for about 6 months, now Prostap and also Darolutamide tablets. I'm getting some joint pain in hands and feet, mainly at night. It was particularly bad last night in the knees and legs, making me restless...
I probably need to say why what I am going to outline below is a thing for me (not a big thing, but a puzzle). My career for 40 years was working for a bank. Much of this time I became used to calculating interest in numbers of days. Given that bankers...
After my robotic prostatectomy in March, I eventually had my histology discussion 11 weeks later which was generally positive but I didn’t have ‘clear margins’ and at at one point the margin was only 1mm which caused me some concern. My final blood...
