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Is it worth the cost? Any thoughts good or bad welcome. Experience too. Best wishes to yiou all and with your treatments from the bottom of my heart.
Hi. I am new to online discussions but have a question and thought that this community might be able to help me. I was diagnosed with Gleason 8 locally advanced Prostate Cancer 2 years ago and I finished Brachytherapy followed by 23 sessions of external...
i hope it doesn’t sound insensitive to be asking about this, but my husband who has advanced prostate cancer is determined to go on a holiday abroad that we had already booked. His cancer has spread to his liver, although to what extent has not been...
Had my planning scan on 1st October and was told to wait 3/4 weeks for RT to start. Phoned hospital today and told still not ready - Another 2 to 3 week for the plan to be ready for RT nearly 7 weeks, is that normal getting worried now. Please...
Hi finnished my treatment 27/3/19 my general health is good the RT effects have in greased over the last 2 months I cant walk has far as before legs feel very heavy & hips ache saying that on the go all day any ideas what would help ZOLADEX effects HOT...
My dad has swelling of the penis and scrotum. Has anyone experienced this and how do you deal with it. My dad is really struggling. He’s stage four and has been transferred to palliative care. No one has come in to see him from palliative care as yet...
Has anyone experienced an ache in their testicles. I'm assuming it's coz they're shrinking but could be wrong
Hello Could you please send me your experience with the same stage of cancer as mine? I'm 53,I had prostatectomy in June 2020,right now my psa is less than 0.1 But because of cells with 4 are dominated in my cancer I really worry when the cancer...
Wel after telephone call with my oncologist I feel quite uplifted, my PSA is now at 0.7 so the treatments I am on are doing their job. This months Degarelix injection was only sore for a day so happy with that and got appointment for my radiotherapy planning...
Husband was gleason 9, aggressive form. Had prostatectomy and last year was undetectable. This year its back, in his pelvis and now we have a three month wait to see what the nodule in his lung is. This is killing me. Doesn't really help when family say...
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