Informative programme on prostate cancer treatments

Thank you for sharing that with us Silverlining. That is the benefit of Gransnet, we can benefit from everyone's knowledge.

My husband had no symptoms but a friend had been diagnosed so I made him an appointment to see the gp for a psa test which was within the normal range. We were therefore not expe ting him to be diagnosed so it was a huge surprise that he was.
He had surgery last June and is being monitored with another appointment tomorrow.

I also heard this silverlining. It is interesting that although prostate cancer has been high profile lately (definitely a good thing) the diagnosis is problematic and PSA test not yet sophisticated enough to identify the fast growing disease, meaning many men will undergo treatment to save a few with the life threatening type. I guess if you're the one with rapid developing cancer you would be glad to be found early. MRI scanning seems to be the way forward. I'm interested because my DH had prostatectomy 8 years ago with no other treatment since and fine since. Perhaps he didn't need it but who knows?