Past a hurdle

Charty said...
I'm here in Canada and went for my results on a CT and bone scan. All was negative. I have a 4+5 Gleason and I suggested to my urologist who I have known forever, I'm considering going to the US for radiation treatment. His advice was to save my money ,that it is a slow growing cancer and you can be treated in Canada in the next 6 months. Trust the guy to pieces BUT the feedback I'm getting from my readings is something different . This is serious and can't wait . Man, am I confused. It was my urologist that caught the high PSA in the first place so I feel I have to trust him. I'm getting two messages here and I'm confused . Any thoughts . If I stay with the Canadian treatment, it will be almost a year since detection by an MRI . Any advice

sorry to hear that man. you should post your numbers in a signature so these guys can help you. G9 prostate cancer is aggressive and needs to be treated ASAP. good luck to you.

Treat it.

G9 and 10 are the most aggressive and will hurt and kill you and are very high risk. Period. G9 can develop into 10. Period. High risk PCA needs to treated and soon. Period.

G6 on the other hand is indolent and often doesn’t need treating. Your urologist must have these confused. That means he knows very little about prostate cancer. It is fine to like him, but get to a PCa specialist, quickly.

It is your life and your cancer, not his. It is you that has the disease, not him. It is you that will suffer, not him. It is your family that will care for you, not his. If he wants to be this frivolous when he gets cancer, fine.

But he has a professional and ethical duty to get you treated as you have a serious disease that will not get better on its own. If he won’t help you, then you must help yourself and get to a specialist. As a former United States President said about another potentially deadly situation “trust, but verify”. You need to find someone else to trust that will verify what you have and what you should be doing.

You found the cancer six months ago and he wants you to wait another six months? G9 can easily double the cancer volume in that time. It can easily break out of the prostate and travel to bones or lymph nodes in that time. For cancer to show on a bone scan or CT scan it must already have a significant tumor formed. Clear scans in no way indicates that it hasn’t already spread. Get to a specialist and start calling today for an appointment. As you know, your system often takes a while for these situation to be addressed. Time is not on your side.

GS9 = high risk aggressive cancer. I don’t think you need to think further than that. There is really nothing to be confused about. It will kill you and not a peaceful death once it metastasizes. Fire whoever your urologist is. Find an RO and get that Lupron shot to stop the progress. From the day I was diagnosed as GS9, it was less than 2 months before I had a treatment plan and got my first lupron shot. Your next stop is cancer spreading. Once that happens, it becomes a long painful process, involving most likely chemo, radiation, drugs, etc. and you’ll still be in pain.
Forgive me if you think I am trying to scare you. It’s not my place, but yes I am. You should have started treatment months ago.
Get on with the treatment brother. Waiting on cancer is never a good thing.
Dennis

I'm a G9, I did the radiation and Hormone treatment....
Don't mess around with G9....

If you have not seen a radiation oncologist yet, you should do so right away. The RO will probably say that you need to treat this quickly, and he or she might be able to get you in for treatment in Canada sooner than you think. Since RT takes weeks, it's best to do it close to home, if at all possible. Good luck!

Charty said...
I'm here in Canada and went for my results on a CT and bone scan. All was negative. I have a 4+5 Gleason and I suggested to my urologist who I have known forever, I'm considering going to the US for radiation treatment. His advice was to save my money ,that it is a slow growing cancer and you can be treated in Canada in the next 6 months. Trust the guy to pieces BUT the feedback I'm getting from my readings is something different . This is serious and can't wait . Man, am I confused. It was my urologist that caught the high PSA in the first place so I feel I have to trust him. I'm getting two messages here and I'm confused . Any thoughts . If I stay with the Canadian treatment, it will be almost a year since detection by an MRI . Any advice

As a fellow Canadian tell your GP to find you another Urologist and move quickly. You can be treated successfully in Canada.