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Questions about Active Surveillance as a treatment option
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Jun 4 4:41pm | Replies (28)Comment receiving replies
@happydappy
Your post is excellent.
The stress and anxiety over a cancer diagnosis is relevant to the individual. So what one person can deal with another cannot. It is the same for which treatment you decide on doing.
It should be your decesion based on your own research, first and second opinions, and then the pros and cons of all. Choosing A.S. maybe exactly right for some and not for others. Same goes for RP versus radiation.
I agree with you 100% about no one should push one treatment option over another and treatment decisions should be respected.
I am reading and watching TV specials on upcoming new treatments for prostate cancer. They seem to be really able to attack the prostate cancer cell only and leave other alone. I think that will really help those in limbo of what to do.
I was lucky and posted many times to have an excellent PCP. He worked with me as a team to go over my two opinions I got on diagnosis and treatments. He shared with me his own research and patient information and research he has been doing with his patients that have been dianosed and treated for prostate cancer.
We went over pros and cons of all. He knows me personally for about 10 years now and not just physically but mentally. So we address my disease both from mental aspect and physical aspect.
Did you decide on a treatment?
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Thank you. We should all be careful to avoid pushing one form of treatment on another and give grace and support for someone else's decision.
Personally, I decided on RALP surgery scheduled for July 18 (they called today to offer June 19). This is right for me because I have family history (dad diagnosed at age 58), location of lesion next to prostate capsule, 4 positive cores, perineural invasion, and the fact that this new lesion came on quickly. Also, my radiation oncologist said that with lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS), radiation would only increase those symptoms.