Thank you all for the excellent advice and words of encouragement. I’m going to bookmark this page for reference when it’s surgery time....
Thanks, Michael! Our patient care coordinator called back since my original post above and said they can put us up in their on-site family lodging while Paul has his catheter so he won’t have to...
Thanks so much for the suggestions! They all sound eminently sensible and are extremely helpful. I appreciate the time you took to reply....
Great to know, Thanks, Ken!...
Hey there, everyone. I hope you all are well. I wanted to let you know that my husband is opting for surgery. As of my last post, we were thinking that the prostate cancer research team at the...
Stephanie, I’m so glad to hear that Jeff is home! It’s great to sleep in your own bed....
Stephanie, I am so sorry about Jeff’s situation. As a fellow wife of a man with prostate cancer, I feel for you. So glad to hear about your canine visitor, though… We lost our beloved 9yo dog to...
Jim, what a wonderful post! Informational, inspirational and funny to boot! We both laughed out loud when reading it. Browntrout, thanks for the suggestion about antinausea meds and walking. Both are...
Thanks for your input, Jim. I’ll read your LDR account right now and make sure Paul sees it too....
Thanks, browntrout, for sharing your LDR experience! I read somewhere, probably somewhere on this forum, that LDR seed implantation is an “art form” so probably best to travel for. How long did your...
JNF, thanks for the time you took to share all those details! I’m actually in the Humboldt Bay area (not San Francisco Bay Area) but UCSF is our best bet for obtaining the most advanced options for...
Thanks for the feedback, Michael. I think the the rad onc was saying that brachytherapy alone was usually used only for low risk patients. Beyond the risk stratification stuff, my husband’s pathology...
Thanks to both of you for the suggestions. JNF, I’m new to all of this my husband is interested in brachytherapy. Looking at your treatment details, I’m curious about how you can tell that HDR...
Thanks for that. I’m definitely not paying anything without an EOB first! As for the treatment side of things, he did mention SBRT but wasn’t recommending it because of greater side effects and his...
Hi, all. Thought I’d bring you up to date on this week’s happenings related to my husband’s newly diagnosed “high volume” G6 (UCSF-CAPRA score=3/low intermediate risk). Feel free to share your...
So glad to hear the good news. Thanks for sharing it!...
Interesting stuff on the hydrogel issue. I’ll be a little better prepared for the RO consult on Wednesday thanks to you all....
Good to know, guys. Thanks again!...
Thanks, garyi. I appreciate you for sharing your experience and have no doubt that you’re right about the biases of surgeons, and informed consent is often a joke. Do you know if hydrogel spacers...
No fever, Stephen. Thanks for your feedback. I think we’ll call and see what they have to say....
Hi, all, and thanks again for sharing your valuable and hard-won knowledge. My husband is nearly 2 weeks post a TRUS 12-core needle biopsy. He’s still in discomfort, which he describes as soreness in...
Thanks for that input, Mumbo. Paul is definitely not overdoing it on the information front. Perhaps I’m compensating for his being in shut-down mode, but doing research is a coping mechanism for me....
Djin, thanks for the PubMed tips! Vynbal, that’s good advice about the additional imaging studies and taking the time to make informed choices. I hope that we (my husband Paul and I) make good...
Thank you, Pratoman. I think you’re right about the potential for regrading. That’s been my suspicion as I started researching various aspects of the pathology report. I found a great journal article...
Halbert, thanks for your well wishes! In our case the comment about surgery after radiation was Paul’s PCP who has nothing to gain but probably not a great deal of experience in the subject. We...
That sounds like sound advice, Terry. It’s good to know that SBRT is working for you....
Thanks, Michael. I’ve downloaded the form and instructions. I think I’ll wait to see what diagnostics are recommended at the UCSF Prostate Cancer Center and ask them if they think a second opinion is...
Michael, your guess is pretty close: we live in Eureka....
Thanks, Michael. I’m not sure how to find the sticky you referred to, but I’m all ears!...
Thank you all for your input. I agree that active surveillance is not a wise choice, and so do Paul’s urologist and PCP. It’s more a question of surgery and/or radiation, along with any other...
Hello, forum folks. My (otherwise healthy 55yo) husband was just diagnosed with G6 PCa on Monday. I’m a medical coder and thus am more comfortable with medical terminology than he is, so I’m acting...