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Lupron Treatment Duration: How long were you on it?
I have been diagnosed with Grade 3 prostate cancer with a 4 + 3 Gleason score of 7. This after having 2 PSA scores last...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Jan 28 10:08am
Long-term lodging options in Rochester while in cancer treatment
Hello, we are traveling to Rochester from North Carolina for my husbands radiation treatment for 7 weeks. This diagnosis has thrown us for a loop...
Support Group: Visiting Mayo Clinic
Last active: Jun 11, 2023
Low fiber diet for salvage RT to pelvic lymph node basin questions
Hi all. I’m hoping to hear from fellow PCa patients who endured a low fiber diet and can share ideas of what they ate while...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: May 26 8:12am
Who should be part of my medical team?
Hello folks. I am a little confused about who exactly is part of the medical team. I understand that it depends on treatment options and...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Jan 16 10:29am
IMRT Radiation and ADT
My husband Jeff was recently diagnosed with prostate cancer. He is 62 yo and mostly in good health- walks, runs, bikes, pickleball, lifts weights. He...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Jul 4, 2024
Frequent and urine burning
I had been diagnosed with prostate cancer on 4th Jan. 2022with Gleason score 8 ( locally prostate cancer, stage cT2cN0M0). Treatment was ADT Triptorelin 11.25...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Jul 10, 2023
Surgeon Experience for Gleason 8
Despite doing yearly PSA tests for the last 24 years, DREs whenever recommended by my primary care doctor, and visits to urologists in centers of...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Mar 18 3:36pm
Why would PSMA-PET scan fail to detect known primary GG2 tumor?
Background: I had a recent TRUS biopsy resulting in 4 out of 12 cores positive, one 7(3+4) and 3 were 6(3+3) for a GG2 Favorable...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Dec 13, 2024
Can anyone please find a moment to help decipher our MRI report?
Hello everyone, My significant other was first DX with prostate cancer in 2019 with one lesion and regular PSA tests going forward, active surveillance. His...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Mar 28, 2023
Radical prostatectomy 9 days ago. Need help with the pathology PLEASE
Hello everyone, thank you for taking your precious time to help. I previously wrote about my partner and his information, trying to figure out what...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Oct 15, 2023
Surgery or Radiation for Intermediate Prostate Cancer?
I was diagnosed with low-grade and low-volume cancer in 2018, and placed on surveillance. 6/24/2024: Prostate biopsy after MRI Now with third biopsy, cancer is...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Aug 13, 2024
Hormone Levels after 90+ days Lupron
Background: @ age 62 Radical Prostatectomy May 2020. Post RP pathology report stated high risk, confirmed 4+3 Gleason, positive margins, Perineural invasion, as well as...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Mar 16 3:28pm
Overtreatment of Prostate Cancer
Urologists are trained to do invasive treatment, such as prostatectomy, for many levels and types of prostate cancer. There may be a tendency to overtreat...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Jan 7, 2024
Biochemical Recurrence: Questions about PSMA PET scan & radiation
After robotic RP in April 2019 PSA pre op 7.5 Gleason (4+5) pT3a evidence of perineural invasion , clear margins no additional treatment after RP...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Dec 26, 2022
Conflicted/Confused, any Guidance/Advice out there?
I will be 61 at the end of this month. MRI on August 2022 revealed an area of suspicion measuring 2.2 cm x 1.4 cm...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Mar 31, 2024
PSA six weeks after radical prostatectomy
My PSA was 7.75 and MRI showed prostate lesion with extension into left nerve bundle, no other areas affected. I decided to have radical prostatectomy....
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Nov 22, 2024
Husband's prostate cancer story
My 64 yr old husband was having urination frequency and enlarged prostrate. Visited the urologist for at least two years. His PSA was around 4,...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Sep 21, 2023
A Quandry between two medical recommendations for mPCa to lung only
History is in profile and I have asked a few questions here already. The gist is we went to a large research center and got...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: May 14 7:33am
Yes - It Is Okay To Whine
In some of the recent comments that have been posted, I have detected a certain amount of snark. I like it. There is much that...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Jun 2 9:34pm
Input on PSA rise 3 yrs Post RP
Radical Prostatectomy May 2020. Original Gleason Score at time of biopsy was 4+3. Post RP pathology report stated high risk, confirmed 4+3 score, positive margins,...
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Sep 4, 2024