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Hi gang, it’s been a while whilst I hustled the NHS for my biopsy operation, but that all went ok. Just got my biopsy report: Gleason 4-3 (60% - 40%) 10/19 cores Max length 7.8mm cribriform present no EPE no IDC Adenocarcinoma Seminal...
My husband was diagnosed 10 months ago, with PSA level of 515. Cancer has spread to spine. He is on HT (enzalutamide and prostap injections) and PSA down to 19 now, but that seems so high compared to the numbers I'm reading in posts here. RT was suggested...
Hi All My husband has just been diagnosed with prostate cancer Presenting PSA 14.1 Pirads 5 Gleason 3+4 =7 Stage T2 NO MO He has just had a bone scan to determine spread However in his letter which we have just received from his recent consultation...
Hi there I am Ryan from east London 48 yr gay male diagnosis was yesterday and treatment offered was to remove prostate via robotics, all very much to take in. Macmillan have been wonderful since my first phonecall last Saturday before I got my result...
Hi - I’ve had hormone therapy treatment- tablets in February followed by two Zoladex implants - the last one 23rd May. Then 4 weeks radiotherapy which finished just over 5 weeks ago. When / if do the side effects wear off and testosterone come back...
Hi, I was diagnosed with prostate cancer three months ago. It came as a huge shock not just to me but to my specialist. I had just been having troubleswith my waterworks. I went straight on to hormone Injections and medication - apalutamide tablets...
Hi there It’s 3am the morning and I can’t sleep so what better time to introduce myself I have always been fit and active, practised martial arts since I was 14, eat healthily and ride motorbikes for fun At the beginning of June I woke up one Sunday...
Hi all been put on hormone therapy at 55 years old with suspected advance prostate cancer t2c n1 with psa 99.02 but no biopsy results as yet. really concerned about the affects this will have on me. Don’t know what to do kind regards john
Just had the appointment we've both been waiting for. Prof rang and we are both over the moon. PSA now less than 0.01 so classed as undetectable. Tissue analysis showed cancer cells close to the margins, so the regular PSA tests all the more important...
Hi (first time posting here), Just wondered how long people had to wait for surgery if it was an option rather than a recommendation? My husband found out he had PC at the end of May. Was offered active surveillance, focal treatment or surgery. We left...
