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My Dad was just diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Aug 19 8:45pm | Replies (26)Comment receiving replies
Yes, he called me on a Sunday and said he couldn’t walk. I flew down the next morning and took him to ER.. his alk phos level was 2,500.. they did blood work at ct scans of legs, pelvic, chest. He has legions on both hips and top of thigh bones.. white all through the scans.. his bladder and rectum have not been touched. The prostate was very large with a large clump attached to it. He was admitted and had a urologist come in and bone marrow taken. Oncologist came in to go over the ct scans and psa.. he started Dad on hormone therapy to suppress the testosterone. He now meets with the oncologist team of radiation, urology and oncology.
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@sunflower64
Wow terrible thing to deal with both him and you.
Looks like from you post he is seeing the specialist he needs to.
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Wow, that's a tough day. ALP of 2500 is pretty high prompting them to sample the bone marrow as this often is an indicator of metastatic or primary bone cancer. I would assume that at the oncology meeting, they will have the results of the testing of that sample and should know what type of cancer they are treating. (whether it's metastatic prostate cancer or primary bone cancer or another form of metastasis) Given the implementation of hormone therapy, it would appear their suspicion is that it is metastatic prostate cancer, or they already have the results and know it is. You didn't mention it, but I would suspect a high PSA? Once they have identified the disease, they will develop and present a treatment and/or palliative care plan. His age and general overall health condition will play a role in that process. More testing such as biopsy or PSMA PET scan may or may not be involved. I would expect that presentation at that oncology appointment.