Prostate cancer recovery experiences
Experiences along the bumpy road to recovery from prostate cancer and its treatment. This includes my story in chronological order, and invites other men’s stories to be added.
Guest post: my journey to salvage radiation after prostate cancer
By Dr Rhys Leeming
The only thing worse than being told you have prostate cancer (PCa) is being told your primary treatment didn’t get rid of it. If left unchecked, the cancer will continue to grow and eventually metastasize to other parts of the body and then you are in real trouble. Such a relapse is diagnosed as biochemical recurrence (BCR) when your PSA levels rise again to a certain point. In Australia the threshold above which they start advocating secondary treatment is a PSA of 0.02 ng/L.
For most guys the recommended secondary treatment is salvage radiation. There is a lot […]
Guest post: Survivor’s guide to salvage radiation after prostate cancer
By Dr Rhys Leeming
What I discovered in my fun journey through salvage radiation is:
- They don’t give you the full picture.
- They don’t give you nearly enough medication options.
- Everyone is different, so you really need to tread your own path and better still, try things out early so you’re not chasing symptoms, you’re staying ahead of them.
My previous post outlined my journey from prostate surgery in 2020 to salvage radiation five years later. In this post I will outline some of the menu of options I learned about the hard way – through trial and error.
Bowel management
After the […]
Diagnosis and treatment
You are welcome to visit these pages to read more about how I found out I had prostate cancer and prostate cancer treatment – radical prostatectomy surgery experience itself. These posts include my own story, other men’s stories, and my wife’s commentary.