My dad went and had a prostate biopsy done on the 12th March 2014, just two days after his 66th birthday. A week later on the 19th March the urologist told us his biopsy was positive for prostate cancer, gleason 7 score. This means that it is "medium/intermediate" risk of growth.
I hate that C word and I never thought it would happen to us.
Dad seems to be ok, it definitely is shock and at times I don't think he quite believes it himself, after all he hasn't felt 'sick' and he has had an elevated PSA level since 2009.
I went with him yesterday to get CT scans and we were delivered the good news that the cancer is contained within the prostate and hasn't metastasized. Thank you Lord!
We're looking at robotic surgery for treatment and the urologist told us that he has a 85% cure rate. So the prognosis is definitely positive! Still it is still very scary and surgery, like any surgery has risks.
Right now we are just trying to get our heads around everything. We are very lucky in that nothing is deemed 'urgent' so we can take our time making decisions. My dad will need to see a cardiologist next week so they can run some stress tests to make sure his heart is fit enough for surgery and he'll need to have a physio session at least twice before surgery so he can learn how to do pelvic exercises.
The tentative date for surgery is the 9th May. In the meantime dad has been given the go ahead to go on holidays before surgery.
