Stories

Lots of significant cancer in my immediate family: colon, and breast. Never expected prostate cancer - had heard little about it. Actually didn’t believe when I got first results: PSA...

Living with ADT-modulated prostate cancer has changed virtually every aspect of my life, but with time it has become the new “normal.” Making love to my wife was often normal...

I was diagnosed with Prostate Cancer in February 2020. If Covid wasn't enough to worry about! It was determined that my disease was aggressive with a Gleason score of 9...

My father had prostate cancer (late in life). My older brother was diagnosed at age 52, had a radical prostatectomy, and has been healthy at age 80. He has four...

As usual my urologist asked me to undergo biopsy when my PSA increased to 29. Interesting thing is that this biopsy, PSA, etc were new words for me. Three days...

I was in my mid-50s when I got the diagnosis. I failed an insurance physical because of having a PSA of 4.4. Not really high but over the normal level...

Diagnosed in March of 2005. A da Vinci robotic surgery removed my prostate That month. My Gleason score was 4. A year later, I received 28 IMRT radiation treatments. Save...

Had a pain in my groin. Doc says get an ultrasound on testicles. That led me to a urologist. DRE was suspicious even though my PSA had little change and...

After having a continuous rise in my PSA level in 2018, my urologist recommended that I get a prostate health index blood test. The results indicated that I had a...

Feb 2022 PSA at 10.6 from 4.75 Oct 2020. Also, BPH problems so before doing a procedure on BPH. Had a mpm prostate (mri) 3/18/22 and found pirad 5 lesions...

I was dismissed as a patient when I said that I felt that my Radiation Oncologist in Dublin "destroyed old men. By taking them off the street, fry their organs...

I have terminal prostate cancer, but I would like to share with you how my emotional relationship with cancer has progressed. Phase 1. Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance. Acceptance is...

Aug 2021 psa 3.5, had MRI oct4 it showed a mass had 12 core biopsy 11/8 1 core was cancer 3+4. Did 20 radiation ebrt/imrt just got done on 5/13...

A few years ago I asked my primary care physician if my regular testing included the PSA. He said that recent literature said that PSA testing had fallen out of...

I serve on the USS Intrepid cvs11. From 1966-to 69 Stationed in the Gulf of Tonkin Vietnam. I was exposed to Agent Orange and end up with Prostate cancer. Many...

At the age of 60 In January 2006 I turned in a "high PSA" of 4.7. I chose to follow the path of regular monitoring. Over the next 6 years...

My husband was really good about having his DRE and PSA every year early on because his father had died of prostate cancer. In 2009 his PSA started to rise...

At age 83, I was diagnosed with prostate cancer. I've been on Dutasteride for years and my PSA was at 4.2 (Doctors double the count because of medication, so, theoretically...

I had my PSA taken every year since I was 48. My numbers started out around 2.0…gradually my number went up to 3.4 in 2019. Somehow my PSA was missed...

The surgeon told me I would recover my ability to get erections and orgasm and the severe incontinence would disappear in a matter of months. Four years later after trying...