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 diagnosed with PC had bone scan dec3 get results dec 13. my numbers were T2, GLEASON 7(5/3 and 3/5) with a PSA of 3.86. my family has a cancer history, mother and sister died, 2 brothers with PC both still alive. I am 69 and the youngest of 8 kids. my psa is aerage for my age and it did not go up quickley over the past 7 years so i was surprised that i had it.not as shocked as my wife and daughter were. Now what i want to know is there any kind of diet or drugs or exercise that can prepair my body for the healing process, mostly the loss of control of my blader and the sexual side ,as i am still sexualy active, also need to find something funny about PC to help my family.  cancer has been a big part of my life since1999 when my wife got breast cancer and in 2006 again and now in 2013 bone cancer.so i dont have time to be sick for a long time  

Welcome to HW. Sorry you need to be here.

You'll do fine. Likely the bone scan will show nothing. There isn't a magic formal for getting ready for surgery. Just do the normal healthy stuff - exercise (walking at least) and a healthy diet, lots of veggies, cut down on fat, red meat and dairy. It's very difficult to predict ahead of time what kind of problems you'll have post surgery. Some guys bounce right back and are dry and erect with in weeks of surgery and some have problems, some serious problems.

We're here most days if you have questions or just need to vent.

Maybe we can get the Friday funnies going for you early this week.

Andrew

hi, thanks for the welcome, im not happy being here either but glad i found you to, sorry about the gleason it should be 4/3  3/4 not 5. as for treatment my doc said i have a choice of radiation or operation that hormone wont work on me.as for the bone scan we dont expect to find any thing but then we did not expect anything from the biop.maybe this is the begining of the end LOL.i dont give up easily.

Hi Grandpa Fred,

Peter is right about the age cutoff for surgery. However, this is not a firm rule. A lot of it depends on the overall general health of the patient, also how robust he is in a physical sense, etc.

My Father was diagnosed with PC at Mayo Clinic in 1997 at the age of 73. They gave him options of radiation or surgery. He wanted to get rid of it quickly and opted for surgery. This was an open procedure because da Vinci had not yet arrived on the scene.

He tolerated the surgery very well and made a very good recovery. Months later he was on his hands & knees with a sledge hammer & chisel to pound 50 holes into the blacktop parking lot of our parish to insert snowfence posts for a beer garden fundraiser. So he was in great shape just a few months after the surgery.

This is not to say that everyone at that age would handle such a surgery very well. I just wanted to point out that this could be an option for you if your health allows and if the doctors think it would cure you.

At the same time, it's possible that radiation could cure you just as well, even if over a longer span of time.

You should learn all the pros & cons of both types of treatment so you can make the best decision for yourself.

Good luck!
Chuck

Resident of Highland, Indiana just outside of Chicago, IL.
July 2011 local PSA lab reading 6.41 (from 4.1 in 2009). Mayo Clinic PSA Sept. 2011 was 5.7.
Local urologist DRE revealed significant BPH, but no lumps.
PCa Dx Aug. 2011 at age of 61.
Biopsy revealed adenocarcinoma in 3 of 20 cores (one 5%, two 20%). T2C.
Gleason score 3+3=6.
CT of abdomen, bone scan both negative.
DaVinci prostatectomy 11/1/11 at Mayo Clinic (Rochester, MN), nerve sparing, age 62.
My surgeon was Dr. Matthew Tollefson, who I highly recommend.
Final pathology shows tumor confined to prostate.
5 lymph nodes, seminal vesicles, extraprostatic soft tissue all negative.
1.0 x 0.6 x 0.6 cm mass involving right posterior inferior,
right posterior apex & left mid posterior prostate.
Right posterior apex margin involved by tumor over a 0.2 cm length, doctor says this is insignificant.
Pathology showed Gleason 3 + 3, pT2c, N0, MX, R1
adenocarcinoma of the prostate.
Prostate 98.3 grams, tumor 2 grams. Prostate size 5.0 x 4.7 x 4.5 cm.
Abdominal drain removed the morning after surgery.
Catheter out in 7 days. No incontinence, occasional minor dripping.
Post-op exams 2/13/12, 9/10/12, 9/9/13 PSA <0.1. PSA tests now annual.
Semi-firm erections now happening 14 months post-op & VERY slowly getting a bit stronger.

Ok, Fred, here you go. So far, one joke on the Friday funnies thread. I didn't say they were always funny. Maybe you know a funny joke you can share with us. And remember what G. K. Chesterton said: "Of course I laugh at my own jokes; They let architects pray in their own cathedrals!"

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when i joined this group i was looking to get my spirits lifited by men in the same situation.not to be sensored by a baptist minister type.men in our siuation need to laugh at it or we might as well give up.so unless you have a section on this site that will give men that think like me, amd can make light of any bad situation( and cancer is not new to me my family has a history)then i will say goodbuy and go about my life my way laughing all the way.

Granpa Fred you have no sense of humor or you wouldn't threaten us with your loss…. We ain't Burger King here. Hope that makes you laugh…… honestly I do.

Good jokes, PeterDA. Ought to recopy them over to the Friday funnies post, where the action had been light this week.

I suspect they have been there before, but there are always new guys and partners joining this site and there is no such thing as it being an old joke if they have not heard it before,

On a more serious note, glad to hear we are now looking at Gleason 7 (3+4) versus (4+3) instead of Gleason 8 (5+3) and (3+5), makes a huge difference.

LupronJim