Male, 67, widower.
Out of the blue, was diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer in Nov 2021 following a routine blood test showed a high PSA level (85). I had no symptoms.
Immediate hormone-suppression therapy (3-monthly Decapeptyl) reduced PSA to below 1, indicating the cancer is now dormant. March 2024 test result was 0.04.
Also had a course of chemo and radio therapy in 2022, which I tolerated well. Currently I feel fine and hoping that long may it last!
Sadly, I've had some experience of the journey I'm on as my wife died of breast cancer a few months before my own surprise diagnosis.
She had been diagnosed five years previously and, rightly or wrongly, I have the same sort of timescale in mind for my own journey.
