Well saw my consultant face to face for the first time in three years today .She had a big smile on her face but was three quarters of an hour late seeing me . Hospital is undergoing expansion in several areas and its chaos. Parking is a nightmare as they have closed some of the patient visitor carparks including oncology without realising it would cause a problem you really couldnt make it up !
.People have been missing their appointments because they cannot park fortunately my sister in law dropped us off .However I digress ...
All my scans are completely clear of cancer and I am possibly cured, wonderful news (read my profile to see my prostate cancer history ) however I fall in the middle ground as far as treatment is concerned .If I had been originally diagnosed as local or locally advanced they would stop treatment now but at the time they thought there might have been a few cancerous (they were not too sure at the time) illiac lymph nodes which put me in the advanced group and its possible there are some cancer cells lurking somewhere too small to be picked up on the scans .Once off Enzalutimide they would not now be able to put me back on it if the cancer came back the conumdrum being how to proceed now . They decided to reduced the dose to two tablets not four a day and we will see how it goes .My consultant is lovely and so happy to be giving good news she said they dont want to overtreat me but Enzalutimide can sometimes change prostate cancer to the very nasty neuroendocrine cancer so they will moniter me closely for another year and review again then .I have received wonderful treatment from the oncology department in Plymouth couldnt have been treated better if I had gone private I am so grateful to them .
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