Spinal cord tumor în prostate cancer

[Robertino44]

Hello!

My father is diagnosed with prostate cancer with bone metastasis and recently he doesn't feel hes feets, if a tumor compresses the nerve it is possibly for him to make a surgery intervention for recovering?

[GP24]

Yes, you can get surgery for that but you need a specialist to do it successfully.

[dadzone43]

Often radiation to the area is better than surgery.

[Tall_Allen]

Yes, but it is a difficult surgery, and it will require extended physical therapy afterwards. My friend had it done, but he never really recovered.

[CalBear74]

Are you in Florida? I had an orthopedic anesthesiologist resolve a similar problem without spinal surgery at the Florida Orthopedic Institute, Brandon, Florida, Dr. Faisal Chaudhry.

[Jrb12]

I have completed, recently, radiation for the same problem. I had 15 treatments and some slight discomfort during treatments. I would pusue this treatment before surgery

[abmicro]

I am 18 years out from diagnosis and have had every treatment under the sun. My MRI indicated soft masses inside my lower spine. Radiation was evaluated, but I could not do radiation because I already had radiation to L5 and could not do more radiation.

I did the surgery. After surgery, soft tumors inside spinal cord were was not cancer, but the bones in the spine were cancerous per the MRI and a recent spinal cord compression fracture. If the soft tissues inside the spinal cord were cancer it would have been very aggressive and would have required chemos for morphed cancer types 30 days after surgery.

Got surgery done by the best, Dr Radcliff at Stanford. He used bone graft on the bones that were cancerous. Bone grafts come from a cadaver. Have a giant screw on both sides of the sacrum running from lower spine. Have screws all the way down lower spine from above L5. Hard to believe spinal bone grafts will grow, but that is what they do.

I am still recovering from spinal surgery done March 2020. Had a week of acute rehab after surgery. I do NOT recommend Santa Clara Medical center for this. The food is terrible and exercise way to aggressive per my follow up nurses who visited me at home later. That exercise caused another fracture in my lower pubic bone near groin, which another cancerous bone. Small crack. Might have to put a screw in it but not now.

If you have time, you might want to do another MRI of spine just to be sure it is growing and indicating cancer before you decide to do serious spinal surgery. Surgery will probably not get it all, so you will have to follow up later with other treatments. Radiation is usually recommended instead as the primary instead of surgery if you have not done radiation there before.

[j-o-h-n]

Greeting Robert,

Here goes: Please tell us your Father's Age? Location? Scores PSA/Gleason? Treatment(s) to date? Treatment center(s)? Doctor's name(s)? Thank You!!!

All information is voluntary but it helps us help your father and helps us too.

Good Luck, Good Health and Good Humor.

j-o-h-n Tuesday 09/01/2020 6:26 PM DST