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My brother who is 71 has been going to the doctor for over a year with pain in his hip and leg, been told it was sciatica. Three weeks ago he phoned me and said he couldn’t bear the pain anymore. I told him to phone the surgery and insist on having his...
I was treated with 5weeks of radium treatment % years ago followed by 3 years of Prostap injections, unfortunately my PSA started to rise and a body scan revealed a deposit on 1 rib and a tiny deposit on my right hip. I then started a course of 4 weeks...
Hi, first time posting, my husband was diagnosed with prostate cancer early last year, had radical operation in July to remove the prostate but since learned after his psa level kept going up he had an mri scan,bone scan and pet scan and they show there...
Hi my 47 year old husband was diagnosed in November with advanced prostate cancer which had spread to various bones lymph nodes and tissues he was started on docitaxel injection and was told the only other treatments for him was apalutamide he was on...
I'm sorry to ask a question which has been covered before. My husband is due to start RT on 7th March, 20 sessions. Contributors to this site have mentioned the importance of diet. When we mentioned this we were told it is not important, no special diet...
Hi. My dad was diagnosed with prostate cancer in January. We was told that its spread but yesterday we got a letter telling us that its spread to his sacrum, spine, ribs,sternum, scull, humerus, scapula. He also has an aneurism. Hes on a 3 monthly injection...
Well after 5 long months after an equivocal bone scan picked up a very small hot spot in my left SIJ, followed by a similarly equivocal CT scan in January and a MRI scan in February the Specalist nurse has just rung to confirm no cancer in bone just an...
Anyone else getting tingly/numb feet and toes along with feeling cold down the back of legs? I have been on decapeptyl for nearly four years and bicalutamide 50mg For four months having had radio in Oct/Nov 2018
Hi all. I was diagnosed with Prostate cancer just after Christmas. My PSA was 5.9, a Gleason number of 8 (4 + 4) and a type T2c 0n 0m. All has been going well and was going to have an op late March. This morning I tested positive for COVID. The hospital...
Hi Lovely people Hubby has bone Mets with his advanced p/c. Does anybody out there know how much vitamin D he should be taking a day to help his bones. Thanks Ginny
