Dear Ed... I am sorry to hear of your cancer report. Cancer can strike anyone (no matter how healthy otherwise) anywhere in the body, so be grateful it is an area that is not certainly fatal and can be dealt with without too much fuss. I underwent chemo and radiation last year from the end of April to the beginning of June, and had surgery mid August, at which time I was hospitalized for ten days, and then began a course of chemo treatment that was to be for six sessions of two weeks on each followed by one week off. My last two week session was recently cancelled due to some fairly severe side effects I was experiencing, and I have been told that that is it for me for chemo, which is a blessing, because some people are on chemo for five years following their cancer surgery! Was chemo and/or radiation mentioned at all to you?
Wow!
I’m terribly sorry you had to go through that, and that I didn’t even know that you did.
That’s what I get for not checking the prayer request section frequently enough.
Praying the Lord fully heals you.
So your surgery was successful?
To answer your question, there are apparently 3 treatment options for me.
1. Radical prostatectomy (simply am unable to pronounce that word!)
2. Fancy word for some type of radiation.
3. Active monitoring.
As of now, my Dr believes option 3 is the way to go. At least until the periodic test monitoring shows the need to move to one of the other options. But he thinks they may not be necessary for a decade or longer. Although he also told me he didn’t think the enlarged prostate would have any cancer before the surgery. But I’m going to trust him.
Just trying to make peace with the idea that there is cancer in me.