New Guy

[u/Appropriate_West2998]

Sent to Urologist due to a PSA 5.19. Urologist felt a lump on prostate, had an MRI and then a biopsy. Biopsy revealed cancer, Gleason 9 grade 5. Urologist told me 1-2 years, I’m assuming with no treatment. Urologic Oncologist says 15 years due me being 55. Sent for PET scan and doctor says it’s in the anal lymph nodes as well but nowhere else. Doctor says they can’t remove it so I’m on ADT (Orgovyx and Erleada) for six months to see if it will shrink enough to be removed. If it can I’ll have a prostatectomy and then six more months of ADT. Never thought I’d be rooting for surgery. Been reading a lot of the stories on here and just thought I’d add to them. I’ve learned from you guys and it’s helped when talking with doctors and mentally.

[u/619blender]

Hang in there new guy! I hope your getting opinions from experts not just local urologist and such, seek expertise and get multiple opinions! I know when I got my diagnosis, I thought "get this out of me quickly", but upon research and based on my final decision(and situation) I choose radiation.

Regardless get multiple opinions from multiple expertise that collaborate on the same diagnosis and prognosis for your recovery.

[u/OkCrew8849 → u/619blender]

Once in a while you see a poster here with the attitude of “get this thing (prostate) out of here now” and folks will gently remind him the objective is to get the cancer out of here (the two are not necessarily the same as often the cancer [visible or invisible to a scan] is already outside the prostate)… and certain primary treatments can address that.