Hello everyone I am new to the community.
A bit of background: my dad is 67 and was diagnosed in April with advanced prostate cancer Gleason 10 with spread to pelvis and 2 rib nodules. A week following this, he was was admitted to hospital and diagnosed with heart failure EF16%. We are just shocked. He is a very active man, works a manual labour job and continues to do so full time with both diagnoses. Looking at him, you would not believe he has the diagnoses he does.
He was started on bicalutamide and then prostrap for the prostate cancer and is now on heart failure meds too. The oncologist still hasn’t even seen him face to face 2 months down the line, just one phone call appointment on Tuesday where they said he is not eligible for chemotherapy due to his heart. We are just devastated. We feel like if they could see go well he is managing then they would be more willing to help us.
My question is, do any of you also have heart failure? What options have you been given? Is it worth us exploring second opinions and how would we go about this?