Jane B. said...
I'm so sorry, I returned home tonight to find that the information was inaccurate. It's a much smaller tumor than 1 by 2 inches, must be centimeters. This is the problem with getting information third hand.
He did dodge a big bullet with a pre-cancerous, or almost cancerous, pancreas. Cameron did the Whipple. He told our friend, he would have been dead in 18 months had they not done the surgery. The pancreatic issue was found in an unrelated scan of some sort.
But the Gleason 9 is still a Gleason 9. I know he can live a good long time with this, but I'm sure all of you niners will agree that it's hard work!
Take care, Guys.
Tomorrow my husband gets his little gold fiducial markers. I told him not to book patients as I had read that he could be uncomfortable. And he booked patients. I can't win.
Jane,
If he is on the lucky side, caught while still in the prostate and all of that, he has a reasonable chance of cure. If not contained, he still has some chance of cure, though less. If not cured- but all depending on how far it has spread and how aggressive it turns out to be, he could still be around long enough to die of something else 1st- it happens a lot to even G9s.
Sounds like he dodged a bullet on that pancreatic cancer which otherwise would have put him in the statistics that die with PC rather than from it, and he would maybe even have died in the group that never knows they have PC.
So, it might not be as dark as it at 1st seemed! That RT or whatever may buy him a whole bunch of years, at least as far as dieing of PC goes. You might even get real lucky with a cure!
Bill in MS