Hi all, thank you for reading my question. My dad was just diagonsed with prostate cancer last monday. The funny thing about this is that his PSA levels started at 7.6, when they told him he might have cancer, he changed his entire diet around, every two weeks he had to go for blood […]
Has anyone ever had one of these? My husband has to have one on Thursday because the dr. found a small growth on his prostate. His PSA test has come back negative but doc still wants to do biopsy to see if it is cancer. Is the procedure very painful? Thanks in advance!
I have just been diognosed with prostate cancer. My urologists recommended treatment is: radiation, implant radioactive seeds and hormone therapy. Reason for this as the only treatment is: aggressive high grade cancer, Gleason’s combined score 9 (4+5). perineul invasive adenocarcinoma is present.
My PSA has been 4.2+ for several years. I am now 66 years old […]
My dad had a biopsy done and he will be having to go back to have his prostate "scraped". What does this mean and what is the process like??? Or will they completely remove it? And what is the healing process like? How long will he be in the hospital? How long will he be […]
Colonoscopy cuts out growths of a certain size within your colon. Supposedly, those larger ones are most susceptible of becoming cancerous. Makes good sense. However, would cutting such growths cause an in situ cancer (benign) to spread. I read that when you do biopsy of breast or prostate tissue, one can […]
i was diagnoised with Prostate cancer 18 months ago. i had an biopsy done and out of 12 biops only 1 cancer cell showed up. I have recentely lost my urologist due to insurance. He explained everything too me and for forty-five minutes I listened along with two of my children. After all was said […]
I am looking for help from anyone that has had to battle the insurance companies in order to get the treatment they DESERVE.My Father (56) has been diagnosed with prostate cancer that has metastasized to his hip bones. His original PSA was 184. He started hormone therapy in February and with hormone therapy it has […]
My dad recently went in and had a biopsy done to check for prostate cancer because his levels were high. So they did the biopsy and the doctor told him he needed to do something like a "scrape"? What does this mean and when he has it done…how long will he be in the hospital […]
My dad was diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer in October last year. Last week he was taken ill and took into hospital where we were told he has advanced myeloma. My dad is 79. He needs to have a bone marrow biopsy now, what will his survival rate be with having two cancers to deal […]
I was just been informed that I have high grade prostate cancer on the left side of the prostate. None show cancer on the right side..
I like to get a "second opinion", but I am not sure what is to be examed. Is it the biopsy core? Is it the biopsy report?
Or […]
