Prostate Cancer and doing nothing.
I am new to Prostate Cancer. I have a Gleason score of 8 4 +4. I am 69 years old and have an active sex life. Which I intend on keeping. I truly love women and have a strong desire for my wife. I can't imagine not being turned on ,ever again. I love life as much as anyone. My doctor said you won't miss what you don't have. Are you fucking kidding me. Do you even hear yourself talking. I am not giving up my desire for women. Not only that, but my grandchildren see me as Superman or at least his qualities. Not willing to let them see me as anything less.
What if your spouse told you 20+ years ago she no longer wanted to be intimate with you but you never stopped loving her or desiring to regain intimacy.Prostate cancer has led to surgery, radiation, and now recurrence after 5 years of .00 PSA with possibility of further sequel issues.
I am not understanding the post.
I had radiation and brachy. I still get boners (nobody to use them on though. Lol. But I don’t even care that much).
People that get cancer loose things. They loose lungs, legs, half their brains sometimes.
Address your issues NOW. You may still be able to have sex later at some point. But if not, you can still love and be loved.Here is a good website to compare odds of cure for the major treatment paths. You have to determine your stage, low risk, intermediate, or high risk (risk of recurrence). So if you are intermediate, pull up the intermediate chart and you can see the odds of 10-20 yr survival, etc. based on the treatment you pick.
https://www.prostatecancerfree.org/compare-prostate-cancer-treatments/
It is best viewed on computer or just print it on paper. Not so viewable on phone.
To make the graphs easier to read, i drew a dot on the endpoints of the elipses, and then drew a line through the dots. This turns the elipses into lines.
Also be aware the the graphs don’t show any salvage radiation benefit. This would boost the surgery odds up a bit.
Also beware, this is a very dysfunctional industry from my view. Loads of bad info mixed in with the good info. Same with the docs. Some of them are more dangerous than the cancer.
Good luck. Study your Butt off.
The decision to do nothing or opt for active surveillance would depend on whether the cancer is localised, on the rise in PSA (doubling time), progression as reflected in periodic PSMA-PET scans or mpMRIs as well as genomic tests now available for risk stratification such as Decipher and Oncotype DX GPS. Your specialists would be the best source for advice on those.
