That would be good, someone who has been through the same situation would be great, 

Sorry I put wrong name down. 

Billy 

Hi, 

Sorry to read about your prostate cancer

With regards to the radiation, You dont feel a thing. They do recomend special soap and it can get very tiring towards the end of the treatment. The soap is especially recomended for people with sensitive skin. I never had a problem with this at all. As my psa was 70 I had 7 1/2 weeks of radiotherapy and I was told if I felt tired, to go and have a lie down. After a short while I was okay again. The other thing is the treatment can give you the runs. I bouught some Immodium Instants and they worked fine.

It may seem a long time 4 weeks but trust me it will fly by. I am aware that some treatment centres are reducing the 37 radiotherapy sessions i had to about 4 weeks but are sometime giving increased dosage per visit,. It has been found to often give less side effects while being just as effective. 7 1/2 weeks was a long time and the r/t dept became a second home to me for a while.

I had hormone injections for two years and had far more side effects from them than I ever did the radiotherapy. Wishing you good result s and please let us know how you get on, Brian

Hi Brian, thank you for your response, I think it has settled my nerves considerably. This psa situation is rediculous, they are so different in every one and can be as high as a thousand, seems to be a bit of a strange test, pity there can not be a new test, but beyond me. Once again thank you for your reply and hope all is going well with yourself

Not a problem Billy

Hi

They are looking at other methods as the psa is not always that accurate. You can have a high psa and not have cancer but you can sometimes have a low psa and yet have cancer. They are looking at variuos markers to see if they will give a more accurate picture but I think its a way off yet. 

But there is so much research going on I feel confident things will change in the not to distant future.

The treatment I had, hormone therapy and radiotherapy brought my psa down from 70 to 3.18 before I started radio/t and about 12 weeks after finishing radio/t it was down to 0.01 so the treatment was very successful in my case.

Sure I had some side effects frome the hormone injections but I consider it a price worth paying.

Best wishes, Brian

Thanks once again Brian, very interesting let’s hope a new test is found soon, and nice to see what your psa was down to after radiotherapy. Good luck for the future 

The gleason score is OK but sometimes they put it down wrong there was someone on with gleason 9 and it was still only in prostate, hope your treatment goes well.

Billy

P.s my psa was 1581 gleason 8 stage 4 that was three years ago. It's not curable. 

Yeah all seems a bit strange, hopefully mine is right and they can do what they say they can but all a shot in the dark, but hopefully things might get better as there doing clinical trials all the time.