My name is Angela, my Dad has recently (29th Dec 14) been diagnosed with Penile cancer, for those that don't know what it is its cancer of the penis. We had never heard of this and as you can image my Dad was very distressed and upset to find out he would have to loose his penis. He has had his operation on 5th Jan 15 and we have been told this week that the cancer is all over his groin area, lymph nodes, stomach and chest. They are giving him radiotherapy to try to shrink the tumours in the groin area to give him a bit of extra time but it might not be much, we are meeting the oncologist this wed to find out more information.
I've had to phone round what feels like the world to find help for him, the hospital were going to discharge him with no assesment, he is a 73 year old man who lives alone. One after one department denied being responsible nor could help, eventually someone took pity on me and advised me of names and numbers and we got the ball rolling.
I still feel that everything takes ages to arrange anyone find this???
I want to try and raise awareness of this cancer so that men can get checked out quickly and hopefully not get to the situation my poor father is in.
