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I found out I have PC (Gleason 3+4) a couple of weeks ago. Quite a 'surprise' really as I have kept a close watch on my PSA levels over the past 10 years or so and they have remained around the 1.0 mark. It is 1.03 now, so very low. Nevertheless, I...
Dear all Following radical Prostatectomy for T3 Gleason 7 in 2021, we found out that my dear husband (aged 49)’s cancer has come back, so salvage RT to whole pelvis (prostate bed and nodes) is treatment plan. we thought that - compared with surgery...
Hello all my new friends As i am all very new to all this ( only one week since husband diagnosed) I look at what to eat and what not. He, is actually eat very well Mediterranean diet with veg fruits fish etc. He loves his cottage cheese with blueberry...
Hi, My husband was diagnosed with Prostrate cancer in February this year with a PSA of 84.7 Gleason 4+5 had spread to the lymph nodes,the tip of his hip and behind one of his ribs has had 6 cycles of chemo and 6 cycles of radiotherapy. He is having...
Hi All I have just been to have my blood test prior to the 5th out of 6 Docetaxel sessions onThursday(as long as the results are OK) This is the first time that haven't requested a PSA test along with all the others My last test 3 weeks ago had a PSA...
He has had hormone injection and starts chemotherapy in December- docetaxel. It is such a dread - a healthy, energetic man being poisoned, I’m trying to read the forum to see how he might react/side effects. It seems like the downward spiral. How to proceed...
Hi all , anyone had the two lots of high brachnytherapy on here , don’t know much about it
Whilst my husband was having chemo we had to be careful of infection so no gardening without gloves, certain foods he couldn't eat etc. I understand that the tablets are a form of chemo so does he still need to be wary of certain foods? Anything else...
Hi all I’ve had 13 sessions of radiotherapy and everything was going well until this weekend, I’ve had really bad diarrhoea and I’m going to toilet every 15mins, I’m drinking plenty of water and I’ve just had a cup of green tea, that has helped a bit...
Hi All, After the diagnostic with the urology consultant, we were told will see the oncologist in weeks or months. We were given the hormone treatment immediately by the urologist. Can anyone tell me when is the first meeting with the oncologist because...
