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11 anniversaries since diagnosis of stage 4 prostate cancer

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@wooldridgec

You are correct. It s elevated also after something like removing a Gall bladder. In my case, the cancer in my bone was growing and substantially raised my ALP way outside of normal. May I ask why you had spine surgery? Was it due to treatment of prostate cancer.

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northoftheborder | @northoftheborder | Jun 17 12:08pm

Yes. I discovered the (aggressive type of) prostate cancer at age 56 only because it had metastasised to my thoracic spine and was rapidly compressing my spinal cord. I had more and more trouble balancing, and then suddenly became paraplegic after 5 days in hospital, so they rushed me onto the table for emergency debulking surgery (followed later by radiation, ADT, and ARSI).

I'm coming up on 32 months now with PSA still undetectable (< 0.01), and my onco team is very optimistic. I can also walk again, after a lot of physio.

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