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I just been diagnosed with recurring prostate cancer, I have just realised insurance companies, are screwing cancer patients and survivors with disgraceful prices, I think I read a while back government cracking down on them for this day light robbery...
Hi, first post. im 41 and have been undergoing investigations for loss of sexual sensation for the past 2.5 years. This has been a long drawn out process with many cancelled appointments to this date. In between this I had an episode of frank hematuria...
53 years old. Initial diagnosis: prostate cancer ISUP 2 (Gleason 3+4), PSA <10, small lesion (~14x7 mm), apparently organ-confined. Underwent robotic radical prostatectomy. Final pathology: pT2NxMx No extraprostatic extension No seminal vesicle invasion...
An interesting article in The Sunday Times for anyone that doesn't read this paper. www.thetimes.com/.../prostate-cancer-screening-debate-qv0p3tjng UPDATE - if you don't have a Times subscription see 3rd post below, the full article is there.
I have taken the advice of Milobob and several others to get a second opinion. However I have discovered that the doctor I am seeing also works as a consultant at the hospital where my complaint originates. I do hope he is objective as I don’t want to...
Afternoon, I have just started by chemo journey, I had my 1st cycle infusion on Tuesday was give 2 big bags of meds to take at home, so many pills and injections. Yesterday was a good day but today staring to feel more tired. Ive been out for a walk...
Am I right in thinking that if hormone tablets strink the prostate , that brachytherapy might not need to take place if results are good with relugolix tablets and could go straight to radiotherapy
Hi Husband (70 and otherwise healthy) diagnosed 18 March with localised Prostrate cancer: Gleason 3+4 prostrate adenocarcinoma in all 3 samples from right anterior biopsies and 1 of 4 samples from left anterior. PSA 8.93, prostatic volume 45cc, T2c...
Hi all and first I bow to the knowledge and guidance of my 2 colleagues Brian Millibob and Derek excavator As the heading infers I am not new to Cancer….. just new to Prostate Cancer. May 1999 at 43……. I was diagnosed with a rare (8 in a million)...
My husband had a biopsy following an MRI scan last week and we have to go back later this week for the biopsy results. We are so worried as I did not go with my husband for the biopsy as we thought is was just part of the procedure and had not realised...
