Robot A
Further to your response to my last message, I was diagnosed with prostate cancer in June this year and was on Active Surveillance until a further biopsy in September revealed that the cancer was throughout my prostate. The cancer was still low grade ( 3+4 (Category 2) with only 5% category 2, the rest being category 1), but it was felt by the surgeon that though Active Surveillance was still an option that I was now more likely to die of prostate cancer rather than of something else. My PSA in September was, by the way, 6.01.
I opted for surgery because:
A couple of guys I know had had surgery (both at Addenbrookes in fact) and are still alive, well and fit over 10 years later;
There is a very good chance if the cancer has not spread (mine hasn't) that surgery will remove it once and for all;
If the cancer does come back that you can then have radiotherapy ( If you have RT it is unlikely that you can then have your prostate removed)
Obviously, there are side effects of having your prostate removed and these do need to be thought through.
I have no doubt that if I had not started being tested for PSA in 2018, when I was 60, then it is quite likely, unless symptoms had appeared (they haven't yet), that I would have been oblivious that I had the cancer perhaps until I was in my 70's- by which time the treatment plan would probably have had to be very different.
Ivan
Edited by member 13 Nov 2021 at 15:48
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