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Do I have Cancer or Not?

Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Feb 5 4:54pm | Replies (31)

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If it's your preference, tell your urologist that you want to be aggressively proactive and that you're willing to risk unpleasant side-effects to do so. The patient's wishes form a big part of their decisions. Be polite but direct and firm.

After my stage 4 diagnosis, I told my onco team that I wanted to fight (instead of just getting palliative treatments to keep me comfortable), even though I couldn't even sit up in bed yet after the spinal injury, and they took me at my word.

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I cant imagine stage 4, its absolutely horrifying. I don't have the level of pain tolerance to survive without going the palliative route. Amazing how many stage 4 survivors and fighters there are. How do you do it? I only hope they find out what I have before its too late. If its in the prostate I can treat it, once it gets out all bets are off.