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Did you get a PET scan prior to radical prostatectomy?
My husband has Gleason 7 (4+3) PCA with regional lymphadenopathy. Bone scan, CT negative. Current plan is radical prostatectomy. When originally asked surgeon about PET...
Should Zapping The Entire Prostate Replace Updated Imaging?
The last imaging scans I had were back in September 2025. Based on them, 8 grays of radiation per session for 5 weeks in a...
Getting through the pain days
It's been a tough week. The cancer itself is fine (still in full remission), but the damage the cancer did to my body has jumped...
SBRT on T8 Only vs Lower Dose Pluvicto and ADT
I am a Care Partner for husband whom has Aphasia from 2 stroke 14 years ago. He is past the Medicare full retirement age. Diagnosed...
Prostatectomy vs Photon radiation vs Proton Beam Therapy
I’m 58. Gleason 7 (mix of 3-4 and 4-3) 9 out of 12 cores. Stage 2. Intermediate unfavorable. Scheduled to have Petscan and will ask...
Order in the Court
In the courtroom, truth rarely wins. Performance does. The lawyer with the best delivery, arched eyebrow, sonorous voice, and well-timed pause takes the prize. Now...
Stage 4 + Mass Blocking Urethra
My grandparents aren't technologically savvy and having some medical background, I have been helping my grandpa with as much as I can since he was...
Considering Creating A Companion Cancer Site
After going through this journey there are some things that I found very helpful, especially here, but also some things that were lacking that could...
Are your Radiation Treatments on Time ?
I’ve gone for treatment 13 times of 44 . I’m receiving Proton Radiation. As many know you show up with a full bladder. Of the...
So hard to study focal therapy
Right now it is super hard to find a doctor willing to do focal therapy, or information about it, or almost anything really. There seems...
No. Prostate Cancer is not the “good one”
The narrative is tidy. The reality is not. People say all kinds of things when they find out you have prostate cancer. “Oh, that’s the...
TURP Alternatives
TURP alternatives question? 72 year old. Been on Tamsulosin and Finasteride for years, later on the Doctor added Myrbetriq which was like the magic pill...
About to start treatment with Proton, question about ADT
I am a 55yr old, PSA was 7 in June 2024, sent to Urologist who immediately scheduled an MRI, followed by biopsy. He also did...
Uplifting and Hopeful Coming: Tracking meds and health
I’ve gotten the little bastard out, so now just one big hurdle to hit after the catheter comes out and I hope to be of...
Knowledge Is Power
Don't believe me? Ask Google, they became quite powerful peddling knowledge. I see some recurring lines of questions and concerns on here, I thought putting...
A 15 year Wife's Roadmap to Deal With Your PCa Husband
Your Husband's PSA Is Elevated: A Wife’s 15-Year Roadmap to Mild Panic, Medical Jargon, and Unsolicited Advice from Hans at the Golf Club It starts,...
Surgery in Germany vs US
Hello everyone, i week and a half ago I did my RARP at the Martini Klinik, part of the University Clinic Eppendorf in Hamburg, Germany....
A wife's manual for her husband's prostate cancer support
A black-hearted manual for wives reluctantly enlisted in the prostate cancer wars There is no medal for this. No parade, no flag, no swelling orchestral...
Advice from the Trenches for New Members of this Cursed Club
So, you’ve just heard the words: prostate cancer. Welcome to the club no one wants to join — there’s no handshake, no jacket, and the...
Oliver the King, Our Kitchen Floor, and Death
Oliver, the 190 lbs. Newfoundland, the Reluctant Lifeguard, and The Kitchen Floor or, How Grief, Prostate Cancer, and Canine Flatulence Collided on Cold Tile Oliver...
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