Prostate cancer
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surgery now scheduled for 25th June for a PAE (Prostate artery embolisation) as a first step in my treatment 'journey'
hopefully that will help the prostate contract sufficiently for a subsequent Holep surgery if required.
having been front row of a comedy gig on Tuesday and needing to pee (again) 20 minutes in; this can't come soon enough. I'm now on first name terms with Kevin Bridges; the irony was his 42 year old warm up joking about his first prostate exam! Art imitating life!
hopefully that will help the prostate contract sufficiently for a subsequent Holep surgery if required.
having been front row of a comedy gig on Tuesday and needing to pee (again) 20 minutes in; this can't come soon enough. I'm now on first name terms with Kevin Bridges; the irony was his 42 year old warm up joking about his first prostate exam! Art imitating life!
I’ve been reading up on PAE as that’s the likely future for me.
Urologist said my prostate is ‘humongous’ explaining the high PSA. Too big for most options so I think PAE will be inevitable when it’s time. I have an appointment next week to discuss my IPSS and other symptoms.
I understand the method of PAE but once the blood is cut off, how far does it shrink/die?
I visualise a dead prostate hanging around the base of my bladder!
Urologist said my prostate is ‘humongous’ explaining the high PSA. Too big for most options so I think PAE will be inevitable when it’s time. I have an appointment next week to discuss my IPSS and other symptoms.
I understand the method of PAE but once the blood is cut off, how far does it shrink/die?
I visualise a dead prostate hanging around the base of my bladder!
mark387mw said:
I’ve been reading up on PAE as that’s the likely future for me.
Urologist said my prostate is ‘humongous’ explaining the high PSA. Too big for most options so I think PAE will be inevitable when it’s time. I have an appointment next week to discuss my IPSS and other symptoms.
I understand the method of PAE but once the blood is cut off, how far does it shrink/die?
I visualise a dead prostate hanging around the base of my bladder!
I'm also in team 'humungous'. I've been referred from my local major hospital to a adjoining trust with better facilities for Holep; they immediately passed me onto the department that do the PAE.Urologist said my prostate is ‘humongous’ explaining the high PSA. Too big for most options so I think PAE will be inevitable when it’s time. I have an appointment next week to discuss my IPSS and other symptoms.
I understand the method of PAE but once the blood is cut off, how far does it shrink/die?
I visualise a dead prostate hanging around the base of my bladder!
I'm then going to have a follow up MRI a few months later to measure the reduction and then maybe holep the rest of it. Hopefully will find out the extent they expect it to reduce but i think it depends on the individual reaction; hopefully a lot!
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