Blood in cather

[naples2021]

Hello everyone,

I am posting today for my father who was diagnosed with advanced prosate cancer in March of 2020 with a PSA of 6700 .. He is been taking eligard every 6 months and this PSA has been stable to 0.5. He has a very enlarged prostrate but is refusing to do the TURP so he is been using the catheter ever since. He has experienced some bleeding in the catheter before but after taking antibiotics and flushing the catheter multiple times has gone. This time after he lifted something heavy , he saw blood in the catheter that even after changing the catheter and taking the antibiotics is not going away. He has no pain anywhere, and bleeding might be only at night or when he tries to have a bowel movement .. We went to see the nurse and talked to the PA but they acted like this was normal.. I am so confused as I am getting so scared it might have spread.

[CurrentSEO]

Hi,

I had as well PSA in thousands in 2020 and prostate volume of 800+ ml (that is more than big😀), currently volume around 12 ml.

I did few different treatments to reduce/affect the volume among them Tulsa-Pro (would not recommend), Lu-177 and greatest and fastest reduction was achieved by TACE (with taxotere, it is not systemic treatment with chemo) done in Frankfurt by Prof Vogl, cost 3k Euro per one, I needed 8 it total. My tumorous prostate volume reduced from 800+ ml to around 90 ml in 3 months, your father might need just 2-3 of them. It is not pleasant, but it is not a surgery. I started TACE with PSA 11,000+

If you are willing to travel and can pay out of pocket, that might be a good option.

[naples2021 in reply to CurrentSEO]

thank you for your reply..What a journey!

[Adendino in reply to CurrentSEO]

What does TACE stand for? I can’t find it online. Thanks.

[CurrentSEO in reply to Adendino]

General info radiologyinfo.org/en/info/c...

That is where I did it (use chrome to translate from German) radiologie-uni-frankfurt.de...