I'm not sure if I'm grateful or scared but my ostensibly fit and healthy 68 year old husband has been diagnosed with a 50mm tumor G9 T3b N1 M1b after going to the doctor for a urinary problem just 5 weeks ago.
It was a GP appointment one day, blood test the next, then results a week later from the GP which showed a PSA of 6.5. Then an MRI 3 days later which is when we found out the bad news. It was then a CT scan 2 days after that and a biopsy and bone scan a week later! The MDT met and my husband had his first oncology consult 4.5 weeks after this all started as an ordinary GP's appointment.
The speed has been overwhelming and I'm not sure whether to be grateful or concerned. He has been started on bicalutamide with further hormone treatment to follow. In the meantime, he had his PSMA PET last Tuesday. He has mets in his lymphs but only in the pelvic region so far but they've found bone mets in his spine, ribs and pelvis. He's been told if the soft tissues remain clear after the scan they'll start him PSMA-Lutetium radiotherapy and, if not, chemotherapy. He'll find out at his second appointment which is on Wednesday.
From what I've read on these pages, very useful thank you, it seems the oncologist is going in hard and I just wanted to know if any of you had followed a similar path. Any or all information in this newly bewildering world would be gratefully received.
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