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Hi I’m new to the community, I finally received a diagnosis on Friday that I have prostrate cancer. I am 62. I’ve been told that if all of the treatments available to me that surgery would be the best option to have a radical prostratecomy. Even though...
Well i got the phone call from UCLH yesterday, all the cancer was contained in the Prostate. The pathology score was 3 + 4, it's now a case of monitering and PSA level tests. Very happy bloke
Hello everyone Here's a bit of background on our situation. My husband was diagnosed with advance prostate cancer in December 2021. He was placed on Prostat injections immediately and after numerous tests, he had a Radical Retropubic Prostatecomy...
I started the PC journey back in August 2022, and having been backwards and forwards with tests and consultations, I opted for Hormone Therapy followed by Radiotherapy. I started on an course of bicaltumide and had my first hormone injection (in the bum...
Good afternoon, I have just had all my results in from MRI, Biopsies and Bone Scan, and seen my lead consultant as I have been diagnosed with Localised Prostate Cancer, and I have just joined this forum. My PSA was 4.2 up from 3.9 and MRI showed PIRADs...
Hi Steve, I’ve started a new thread to answer your query regarding increasing PSA to avoid hijacking another thread. Hope that’s ok. If you’ve had radiotherapy as in your case, the definition of biochemical recurrence is your PSA nadir after radiotherapy...
Woke up yesterday in a foul mood, ready to tear anyones head off who dare to annoy me. Relised i needed to calm it down, so rather go on a long walk i decided to wash the car. Bad mistake, i was in agony afterwards. Still in pain today.
I just had my first session of RT this afternoon. The next one is at 8:45 tomorrow. Now I just have to hope that the weather will allow me to get home for the weekend (or at least a part of it). It's not looking very promising at the moment.
Hi, I had a prostatectomy in May 22, 3 months on my psa was 0.07, 6 months on it was 0.09 now, most recent is 0.12, which has triggered a referral to oncology, I suspect that oncology will monitor further until I've breached 0.2. Has anyone had further...
We had a call from the specialists nurse this morning. Biopsy result is Gleason Score 3+4=7 and a bone scan has been requested Grade will not be confirmed until bone scan result. Surgery is not an option which we knew already. So decision is taken out...
