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Hi,went for a well man yearly checkup,and asked for a psa at the same time,(wish I hadn’t)I’m 62 fit as a fiddle,train 5/6 days out the 7 and have done for years,have no symptoms and yet my psa came back at 14.5 an examination later and I was put on a...
July 2018 diagnosed with Prostate Cancer at age of 56 (PSA = 21 and Gleason 4+3) November 2018 radical robot assisted prostatectomy and started hormone injections. January 2020 started 6 rounds of chemotherapy - isolated during lockdown! January...
In 2018 for a Gleason 9, I had brachytherapy, bicalutamide, and focussed beam radiotherapy which brought down my PSA to below threshold. This was followed by 2 years of Zoladex. If my failing memory is right I remember few side effects apart from hot...
My partner is having Brachytherapy soon, he's been on hormone treatment for 3 months. I've tried searching this site for posts on Brachytherapy but it returns unrelated posts for other types of cancer. Has anyone here had Brachytherapy and have any tips...
Hi Everyone and hello summer! We received a letter from the oncologist ( not our usual one but a new one) full of errors following a telephone consultation. I follow it up with our usual oncologist who invited us for face to face next week as he is...
Hello, I hope you have all had lovely weekends. We found out recently my dad may be able to potentially take part in the STAMPEDE 2 trial. This would involve 177 Lu-PSMA-617: a nuclear medicine therapy. It would be along side HT We don’t have any...
Hi everyone, I'm new to this forum, I was recently diagnosed with early stage PC following MRI, bone scan then additional MRI on the spine. I have since been advised spine is clear. My 1st appointment with consultant is later this week & expect to be...
Ok i couldn’t sleep last night again and checked and double checked OH. Biopsy paperwork . It says 6 biopsies right side and 6 left . When we had our meeting with the SN. He said he had 6 done in total and OH said yea I could hear 6 being collected. Can...
Hi, My hubby was DX with low grade prostrate cancer about 4 years ago, so was put on active surveillance, unfortunately, his last PSA, scan and biopsy revealed it had grown..this came a few months after he had finished his tonsil and base of tongue...
Hi i am on treatment since april had tablets and Zoladex 10.8 mg injection also but side effects not good got consipation since last month another injection due in jul
