People of any background, gender identity or sexual orientation etc can be diagnosed with cancer. Please be welcoming and supportive when talking to others.
We keep this a safe space for everyone. To find out more, take a look at our Community Guidelines.
For most of my life I have known that I was at hight risk of getting Prostate Cancer. My mothers father was diagnosed and died 8 years later in 1976 and then my father was diagnosed and died 8 years later in 2002 neither of them saw their 73rd birthdays...
Please could someone tell me in baby language how to accept a friend request. I have tried following the help page but I haven't got a button to press that says community, well I probably have but don't know where to find that either. Doooh. me and new...
Husband has his daralutamide tablets from the hospital as they are too expensive to get from the GP and for the last month of being on them he has been given 12 weeks worth. Looking ahead to holidays next year he will run out before we get home on one...
Hi All . I'm new here , my husband having recently been diagnosed with Advanced PC with spread to pelivic lymph . Gleason 9 Group Grade 5 PSA 7.4 Also undergoing further investigation for thickening of rectal wall seen on CT . No Bone spread . Started...
Good evening great people.I posted a couple of weeks back not knowing where this was going but have now seen the oncologist today,to recap my psa was 7.2 my Gleason score was 9 my stage was 4 And group grade 5 advanced local spread and a partridge in...
I'm 57 and have just been diagnosed with Prostate Cancer, Gleason Group Level 2. Out of the 20 biopsies taken, 3 were cancerous It is confined to my prostate and I've been offered either surgery or radiotherapy and my head is in a whirl as no idea which...
As some of you are aware, I’m going for Brachytherapy Boost (a form of HT/RT : see my bio for details). I didn’t realise until recently that I had another decision to make - whether to have one of these two variants: radiotherapy to just the prostate...
Hi everyone Seasons Greetings. Had bladder cancer 18 years ago which was treated successfully with cancer removal and BCG treatment. Very difficult time and only side effects were bladder shrinkage leading to above average toilet visits but not debilitating...
Hi everyone. MRI Tuesday, phone call Thursday stating highly suspicious 14mm area on right side of Prostate. (Exact words now) it SEEMS like it’s not reached lymph or bones?? Biopsy will be done soonest. Going to be a strange Xmas. Trying to think...
So I already know I have advanced PC with bone spread, but I have a meeting with my team on 20th December where I will undoubtedly hear about the results of my biopsy (I already know that it has affected the seminal area) and also my CT Scan can someone...
