Experiences with

Cancer and tumours

Howdy all! I was officially diagnosed with prostate cancer this past week in Germany. I have a PSMA, MRI, blood work and Biopsy (available next week) in hand upon my return. It looks pretty severe with the prostate cancer wrapping around my rectum, multiple bone lesions, a few lymph nodes, and possibly

Because one of the worst enemies is not the prostate cancer itself, but the metastasis, especially to the bones! Nanotechnologies seem to be on their way for precision payload delivery to our bones! https://www.nature.com/articles/s41413-024-00356-2

I’m about to be changed over from Degarelix (Firmagon) to Prostap (Lupron) in a couple of weeks because 3 monthly injection is more convenient. I’ve read that Degarelix is better though.., maybe I should ask to stay on that? Or I’m wondering about asking to switch to Orgovyx instead. I’ve had a quite

Good morning beautiful ladies 😀 This week I started my Taxol and Herceptin cocktail. Being my cancer mutated from HER2 low to HER2 positive with progression to liver this seems like the most head on approach. This is certainly a drastic change from what I was experiencing on Ibrance and Letrozole

I am 68 years old. I have been stage 4 PC for almost 7 years now. My doctor is an out of the box thinker and I love him. After my stage 4 diagnosis with 3 mets (ribs, ribs, pelvis) I did the triplet therapy (adt/zytega/chemo) even tho the triplet therapy hadn’t yet been proven to extend survival and

For 3 years I was on Eligard/Xtandi and was receiving Prolia to help keep bone health. All good, undetectable. Then an 18 month vacation, which I am coming off of. All treatment to be the same as before, except th MO wants to change from Prolia to Zometa. Anyone use both of those, Prolia and Zometa

My husband has been on Zytiga/Eligarde since January 2022 after a diagnosis of Stage 4 Metastatic Prostate Cancer. He was 79 at the time of diagnosis, and there was a met in his sternum and activity detected by a psma scan in lungs, liver etc. He has be doing quite well despite some dizziness and fatigue

I saw the post with this heading but it’s 7 years old. I’d ideally like testing done on my husbands prostate after it’s removed. his 23& me test years ago says he does not have either of the BRCA genes, but there are many more I’m sorry if this has been already handled.

Hello Fellow Warriors 🙂 In March 2024, I was diagnosed with a de novo Amphicrine Prostate Cancer (sometimes referred to as AMPC). I started right away with the triplet therapy: ADT, ARPI and 6 times Docetaxel. Currently still on hormone drugs but Docetaxel has been stopped. Some bone mets detected

hey all, I posted last week about mum requiring a biopsy re. 8cm lump to right ovary with surrounding. They discussed her again at mdt last week and the interventional radiology department decided it was too risky and she was referred for surgery. She met with her new consultant this morning as has

Durvalumab (Imfinzi) will shortly be assessed by the Scottish Medicine Consortium (SMC) for use in NHS Scotland. The indication this medicine will be assessed under is: “In combination with platinum-based chemotherapy as neoadjuvant treatment, followed by durvalumab as monotherapy after surgery, is

Is anyone aware of effects of using GABA to relax and Taurine to get into the gym? I’m on Pluvicto and having a hard time with fatigue and also restlessness in bed. Thanks!

hello fellow warriors. My husband has taken a vacation/holiday from his Zytiga and Elligard shots., Both his MO and RO agreed, it’s been 4 months since and he’s feeling so much better My question is, can you have a PSA of 0? No < than or 0. Anything , never seen this before, he started getting it

Husbands urology practice does surgery, radiation, ADT but does not list Abiraterone. Their website says they will refer us out if needing chemo. Thoughts?

I'm a 68 year old married white male, smoker, active, and still working full time. I enjoy fishing, hiking, camping, playing guitar, and music from the 60s and 70s. I also take medication for an over active Thyroid and Rheumatoid Arthritis. In Aug 2023 I was diagnosed with stage 1 prostate cancer, my

3 weeks ago I had a PSA test added to my annual physical blood work. I'm very healthy and no sypmtoms. Came back at a shocking 10.7. My primary doc called me on Saturday to tell me to get an appt with urologist asap. Had an elevated WBC too. Was able to get in to see the urologist's assistant that Monday

quite a large sub group of men with recurrent prostate cancer were able to put off psa rises and put off mets developing and reduce psa with no hornone treatment just Olaparib - LYNPARZA in short, the responders, who can be tested by gene typing, had median time of almost 4 years without adt vs the

Hello Friends , Since my recurrance 3 yrs ago I have been under the care of Dr. Elizabeth Henry who works for Loyola Medical center but works at V.A. also. Having Loyala Drs. is a common sight at V.A . Dr. Henry is moving up the ladder at Loyola and she informed me that I will be getting a new MO at

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2822870 While each of us responds differently to any prescribed drug, this new study reinforces the view that more nonmetastatic, castrate resistant prostate cancer patients may tolerate the side effects of darolutamide better compared to

After a year the second scan produced the following impression from the radiologist, "1. Marked improvement in radiotracer avid osteoblastic metastasis and marked improvement in radiotracer avid nodal metastasis. Radiotracer avid disease in the prostate has also markedly improved." Bear in mind that