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LIVING WITH PROSTATE CANCER

CARY
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Hi 

my name is Cary I am 66 yrs old I live alone.

I have 1 daughter and 2 super gorgeous granddaughters

I am still actively working. 

Besides my type 2 diabeties 

I have been diagnosed with P.C. I Also have migrated liesions on my bones.

I am on Prostat hormone injections every 3 months

I am in a research programme and have a PSA blood test at 3 monly intervals.

Up till now my PSA has been 0.02 and now 0.01

being the lowest recordable.

but I have been told that because of the migration I will never be cured !

And yes I suffer with low energy and hot & cold sweats

as a side effect of the treatment. 

How this disease will manifest itself in the future I do not know. For now it is what it is !

It has only recently been acknowledged that all men over 50 should have regular PSA tests as PC is in all of us and I dont know the percentage but many will be struck down. Caught early it is survivable to a point I am told 

My heart goes out to all and their close relatives who have more severe symptoms than mine.

A recent report on TV showed a man who ate a bowl of BROCCOLI SOUP every day for 3 years and was cured

of his PC.

I dont know if that will work but their is some substance to the theory.

I wish all of you out there a long life and wish you well

 

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    Hi Cary,

    I am one of the lucky one where the prostate cancer was caught in time thanks to my wife making me go to the doctors. Like you, I ended up have three monthly injections of hormone therapy and had the hot flushes to go with it. With regard to testing for men over 50, there is a lot of research going on to find a better test than the psa test as it can only really be used as a guide. You can have a high psa and not have cancer or a low psa and yet have cancer. Once a more accurate test has been found, I think there will be a lot of pressure to start a screening program for men.

    My psa was 70 when diagnosed but came right down to 0.01 which as you have said is the lowest they can measure. That was several years ago.

    I wish you well and thanks for sharing your story with us, Brian.

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