Prostate cancer

hospital phoned today, got an appiontment with the consultant next wednesday to discuss the biopsy result
 
Read an article on Nathan Ake in the Sunday Times magazine. He lost his Dad to prostrate cancer. There’s a campaign being run by Ralph Lauren and Selfridges ‘Father and Son.’ Nice touch in the interview about Van Gaal and how Pep helped Nathan, along with help from team mates, makes particular reference to John Stones, Kyle and Ruben. Campaign runs til June 20th.

Good luck to all those out there suffering or going through tests.

I should probably get checked out being 53.
 
MikeF said:
Read an article on Nathan Ake in the Sunday Times magazine. He lost his Dad to prostrate cancer. There’s a campaign being run by Ralph Lauren and Selfridges ‘Father and Son.’ Nice touch in the interview about Van Gaal and how Pep helped Nathan, along with help from team mates, makes particular reference to John Stones, Kyle and Ruben. Campaign runs til June 20th.

Good luck to all those out there suffering or going through tests.

I should probably get checked out being 53.
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Definitely get checked out, Mike. Chances are it will come back negative but if there is an issue, you will have a much better chance of beating it. I went for the test with no symptoms and I was lucky that it was found in time.
 
RobMCFC said:
Definitely get checked out, Mike. Chances are it will come back negative but if there is an issue, you will have a much better chance of beating it. I went for the test with no symptoms and I was lucky that it was found in time.
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Can I ask, what led you to go for tests in the first place? Just age? I have my annual check up. Bloods n what not. Would it not flag then? I know it maybe a bit daft this but when all you’re hearing is how the NHS is under pressure, last thing I wanta be doing is adding to it purely based on age. I’m sure I can’t be my own in thinking that?? Plus getting in my docs can be like getting an audience with the Pope.
 
MikeF said:
Can I ask, what led you to go for tests in the first place? Just age? I have my annual check up. Bloods n what not. Would it not flag then? I know it maybe a bit daft this but when all you’re hearing is how the NHS is under pressure, last thing I wanta be doing is adding to it purely based on age. I’m sure I can’t be my own in thinking that?? Plus getting in my docs can be like getting an audience with the Pope.
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It was just age with me - I was 55 last year and had been meaning to get it done since then. I kept putting it off because I was busy with holidays, I thought it wasn't important and like you, I thought that the doctors were busy enough.

But it turned out I was wrong - and everybody - the GP, the nurse who took the blood and the specialist - said "well done" for getting it done.

Now, being honest, when I said I had no symptoms, I was sometimes getting up twice to go for a wee in the night but I just put that down to age. It ma be, but who knows what is normal for a man in his mid-fifties? Do yyou discuss this with people? I don't.

Anyway, this was something that I answered honestly on the questionnaire that the doctors sent me when I first contacted them about this and that's when they said go for a test.

Bottom line, if you are thinking about it, just go through with it. Raise a non-emergency medical request and just insist that you get it done.
 
got biopsy reults yesterday, consultant said cancer was detected in my prostate at a low level, gleason score is 3+4 with 1 out of 6 cores on the right and 0 out of 6 cores on the left. the percentage of pattern 4 is noted to be10% and the greatest focus of tumour is less tham 1mm.he offered 3 treatments, 1 having prostate removed, 2 radio therapy or 3 active surveillence, i'll have appointments with the surgical team and the radio therapy team before i decide what to do in about a months time. i asked him which he would reccomend but he said that decision had to be mine but i got a feeling that he favoured the active surveillence rout so i'll wait and see what my next appointments bring. gonna try and book an holiday in the sun before then
 
Prostrate was their first suspicion with me when I fell ill. I saw an ad earlier which showed a blood test as opposed to a gloved finger up where the sun doesn’t shine.

Don’t think you’re too young for any of this stuff. I was 42.
 
lazerblue said:
got biopsy reults yesterday, consultant said cancer was detected in my prostate at a low level, gleason score is 3+4 with 1 out of 6 cores on the right and 0 out of 6 cores on the left. the percentage of pattern 4 is noted to be10% and the greatest focus of tumour is less tham 1mm.he offered 3 treatments, 1 having prostate removed, 2 radio therapy or 3 active surveillence, i'll have appointments with the surgical team and the radio therapy team before i decide what to do in about a months time. i asked him which he would reccomend but he said that decision had to be mine but i got a feeling that he favoured the active surveillence rout so i'll wait and see what my next appointments bring. gonna try and book an holiday in the sun before then
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First of all, sorry to hear that it's cancer. But its good that they've caught it early.

In my case, all the samples that came back showed cancer and my Gleason score was 4+4.

It's a strange quirk that for Prostate Cancer (and maybe a few others?) the patient has the choice of treatment. What you choose may be determined by how old you are. Although mine's been caught relatively early, the coward in me was secretly glad that it had advanced just far enough so that surgery wasn't a viable option (that may sound strange, but it's how I feel at the moment).

Best of luck with whatever comes next, and keep posting on here.
 
lazerblue said:
got biopsy reults yesterday, consultant said cancer was detected in my prostate at a low level, gleason score is 3+4 with 1 out of 6 cores on the right and 0 out of 6 cores on the left. the percentage of pattern 4 is noted to be10% and the greatest focus of tumour is less tham 1mm.he offered 3 treatments, 1 having prostate removed, 2 radio therapy or 3 active surveillence, i'll have appointments with the surgical team and the radio therapy team before i decide what to do in about a months time. i asked him which he would reccomend but he said that decision had to be mine but i got a feeling that he favoured the active surveillence rout so i'll wait and see what my next appointments bring. gonna try and book an holiday in the sun before then
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Good luck with everything mate
 
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