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Good morning, I’ve been recently diagnosed: Gleason 7 (3+4), 3mm lesion. I’m 58 and my PSA is 3.19. I have all options available including Active Surveillance. Although, it appears that I have time on my side. I would prefer to have this dealt with...
Hello to All.I have just finished seven days of ten of radiotherapy.And now beginning to have nausea attacts mostly in the morning.I know this can be one of the side effects of the treatment.But I suppose after seven days the radiation is now affecting...
Hi everyone. Just saying hello. I was diagnoed two weeks ago and I'm struggling to acknowledge it. I want to just wind the clock back to a time when I didn't know. I Don't want to face up to what I now need to. I feel like leaving my cancer in there and...
Hi everyone ️ I wonder if anyone can give an insight into their side effects/experience with their radiotherapy treatment please? Im very worried about my husbands 'side effects' from his recent 20 sessions of RT. He had a radical prostatectomy...
After radiation treatment and 3 years hormone therapy (finished 4 years ago) and recommended sex drive I find sexual activity more an anti climax than a climax compared with before. Current PSA is 0.14 so am still happy I had treatment but along with...
Hi Again, After more research, the clinical benefits of Daro vs Abi (AAT) with Hormone therapy (ADT) seem highly beneficial. It seems that the side effect profile is better on the fatigue front and that you also avoid the steroid (Prednisolone) side...
I'll be 9 weeks post my RARP tomorrow and to my surprise I got my histology results last week. My staging was increased from stage 2 to stage 3 but the good news was the margins were good and no spread to the lymph nodes of seminal vesicles. First...
Hi all, still trying to come to terms with this.
The last month has seen a few events. A year since my initial diagnosis, even though that did change over the initial couple of months. NHS England has accepted the prescription of Abiraterone - I was lucky enough to be prescribed it by my Oncologist...
Hi folks. I’ve just joined this group forum, I was diagnosed about 8 months ago, I came across the site when looking for blogs, I wanted to start my own, somewhere to write stuff down so everything wasn’t just sitting baking and festering in my head,...
