Calling all Stage T2C Members

Am I missing a point, here? When I read about "how PC is staged" it says we are at least T2C if we have tumors on both sides and either DRE nodule detected or tumor shows on imaging? Is this correct?

Miki, that's how mine worked as well. I'm still several weeks away from my 3 month PSA.

Looking for some input from others who may have experienced a similar SE?
Every now and again I have noticed a little trickle of blood in my urine and yesterday I could feel a very slight burning sensation and when I started to urinate there was a small amount of blood(almost like a clot) came out during the start of my urination. I have my checkup in May so I'm thinking about waiting until then to report it?

T2C with a slight twist...Indraductal Carcinoma of the Prostate (IDC-P) in 4 cores (also a 4+3). High Risk grouping (IDC-P is treated as Grade 4/5 according to Epstein)...too early to tell how things will turn out. Started Chemo on 5/10 and Eligard. After 6 infusions then it's HDR Brachy with EBRT. No standard of care known for IDC-P on needle biopsy so it was difficult to find a team that understood IDC-P and what should be done...most times it's always found with distant mets so I got lucky (I think:). Time will tell.....
Todd

FoxRun said...
I'm still not experiencing the full hardness during erections and I was wondering if others, who had similar treatments, were experiencing the same?

My recovery of testosterone has been pretty good, almost back to baseline. My sexual function is probably only about 60-70% of baseline, and may get no better than that. Lost almost 2" of length (largely due to 3 years on ADT, had zero interest in doing anything to prevent that); firmness is erratic but marginally useful. Radiation, despite careful shaping of the treatment fields, causes injury to nerves and arteries involved with erection. That tends to worsen over time too, just the nature of radiation therapy. Surgery side effects start bad and improve, radiation side effects start well, and deteriorate.

What capability you have after this much time, in my humble opinion, is unlikely to get better than it is now. It's just one of the trade offs we make when we treat this wretched disease. Whether or not the side effects are worse than the disease may be arguable. For high risk cases like yours, we're pretty much going for survival and have to accept whatever side effects we get as unfortunate but necessary.

There are treatments for ED if you want to pursue them. Lots of the guys here seem to be rather expert in that area.

The good news is your PSA seems to be behaving very well indeed! We should all be so fortunate.

Hey Glenn...hardness is great, no change there. However, I've only had a fitful T recovery.

I'm not sure what to think about my low T. I get tested again in about a week. My oncologist is open to the idea of TRT, but I'm on the fence. Sometimes I wonder if I don't have as much pep in my step due to the low T, but it's hard to say: 1) if it's true and 2) what the cause might be. I do need to hit the gym more often!