secondary cancer

[Peloton]

Has anyone been diagnosed with bone marrow cancer as well as prostate cancer? My husband is getting ready to have a bone marrow biopsy to see if that is what is going on. I have read that chemo and radiation can lead to bone cancers😖

[Tall_Allen]

PCa often travels to the bone, but it is not a primary bone cancer.

[swwags]

Have read and been told the same but the cause of many blood cancers is unknown so I think it's more a causation/correlation question but I'm not a doctor. I was diagnosed with MGUS, then biopsied a bone marrow lesion which was confirmed plasmacytoma and now have progressed t multiple myeloma. Biopsy it the only way to confirm that the lesion is in fact prostate cancer or blood disorder.

[Peloton in reply to swwags]

thank you!

[j-o-h-n]

Sorry, but I viewed an old Medical Dictionary which I have laying around to research all these cancers going around.......... and In bold triple width type there was a one word description: "SHIT"............

Good Luck, Good Health and Good Humor.

j-o-h-n Saturday 09/30/2023 2:17 PM DST

[MaxWife]

It is possible to be diagnosed with leukemia or myelodysplastic syndrome after chemo/radiation treatment for prostate cancer but it is extremely rare (<1%). However, it is considerably more common to have treatment related anemia (low red blood cells), neutropenia (low white blood cells) and/or thrombocytopenia (low platelets). These are production problems, not cancer.

Radiation therapy can also cause bone and soft tissue cancers- again, very rare, and usually associated with higher doses of radiation or accumulative radiation from multiple treatments. Much more common to get metastatic prostate cancer in the bones than a secondary bone cancer.

Hope that helps. Try not to worry about what you don’t know for certain. I know it’s easier said than done as we all live from test result to test result at times! My thoughts and prayers are with you as you navigate this uncertainty.