Things are going as planned I am leaking a bit, but not a big deal. Waited for The doctor to call me to go over the report. He told me the report was good margins were clear cancer was embedded in the prostate. But my curiosity got the better of me and I looked at the report. Was not happy that he only took out one lymph node I don’t know why it didn’t take more and everything looked good until I saw perennial invasion present and we all know that’s not good so I have now messaged him to ask him why he did not tell me about what are your thoughts? TUMOR Histologic Type Acinar ade ..read more

Had PSA last Thursday to see progress of treatment and appears to have went well. PSA <.006. I finish my 6 months of HT via Orgovyx on Friday and then wait and see if anything comes back. HT was not horrible . Some side effects but nothing life altering. Thanking God for my progress ..read more

My doctor has been monitoring my PSA for several years, thankfully. The last several years PSA readings have been relatively stable 3.096, 3.166, 4.231 , 3.826, … then 5.4. The reading of 3.86 was accompanied by a free PSA % of 13. And the free PSA % was the first alert that I need further examination. So off to the Urologist for the first time in my life. Urologist did prostrate exam, and said it felt very normal. But biopsy should be done. April 2023. Biopsy (I was awake in office…no big deal) came out negative on all 12 samples. Good news. Next PSA test in 6months. PSA test in November 2023 ..read more

I know I am in the early stages of possible PCA diagnosis as my biopsy is scheduled on 4/23. But I am really blindsided by this. I am 52 years old. I have absolutely no symptoms other then noticing some possible ED over the past year. My doctor ordered PSA test in on 2/20 and it came back as 14.97 and another test was conducted on 3/4 that came back as 16.86. I was seriously doubting these numbers being serious but I did follow up with referral to urologist. Dr said he felt a large nodule when he conducted DRE. MRI was scheduled and two lesions were found. One being pi rads 5 and other pi rads ..read more

My brother-in-law has recurrent prostate cancer (he was originally diagnosed with stage 4a) and his oncologist wants him back on ADT drug he took for 2 years. Thing is the side effects were horrendous. From what I've read (NCI, ACS, etc.), side effects can vary some between the various ADT drugs. His oncologist said they all have the same effects. What I'm wondering is if anyone else has had bad reactions to an ADT drug and tried another with and and few and/or less troubling side effects ..read more

I'm sure most or all of you have learned of OJ Simpson's passing yesterday. What you may not know is that the cancer that took him was PCa ..read more

All personal opinions about the man aside, do we know his PSA at diagnosis? Is there any other relevant information ..read more

After months of indecision, I just sent a note to my doctor at Fox Chase to ask him to schedule me for focal cryotherapy procedure. So far, it seems for primary treatments of Pca, focal treatments are typically only applicable to some men who qualify with in-gland non metastasized low to intermediate grade cancer. The lesions need to be well defined and suitably positioned along with other limiting factors. With all the staging I've had and the index lesion being in a good position I was fortunate to have the option of focal therapy. It is not totally without risk, but much less so than the RP ..read more

I'm 4 weeks out from a radical prostatectomy and just received my post-surgery pathology report and it's indicating that cancer's a bit more advanced than pre-op biopsy/pathology/scans/etc. indicated. What I'm wondering is if anyone has experienced a similar situation and if further treatment was required. I'm having to wait about a month to talk with my oncologist about the report and, well, would like to understand a bit more, if possible, about my results, especially in terms of potential further treatment(s). Initial path report, etc., indicated stage 2b cancer. This current report indicat ..read more

Do most high risk stage 3, Gleason 9 prostate cancer patients start long term hormone theropy right after radiation treatments ..read more