Father just diagnosed with PC, extremely high PSA

Concerned,

Medicare covers prostate cancer treatment, including hormone treatment. It is sad to say that his cancer is very likely advanced by the numbers you have given. I have no suggestions on what insurance plans to purchase with the exception of any additional medicare plans that could ease some of the cost.

Thoughts and prayers are with you and your family,

Swim

Thanks to both of you for your quick responses.

Dutch, would my father's Medicare Plan A (no plan B) cover the photon treatment at Loma Linda? After looking at the web site you referred me to my impression is that the treatment has a high success rate...but if so why is it not a more commonly used treatment?

Best,

Sam

Hello, this is wiggyann and my husband is having a seed implant today. it is 3:28 a.m. here and he will have to get up and give himself an enema at 4:00 a.m. We have to be at the hospital at 6:00a.m. and the surgery is at 7:30 a.m. He will go to be prepped a little after six and after the surgery he will be in a central recovery room for an hour and then they will move him to the out-patient recovery for an hour. The nurse told me the other day that he can go home then, if everything is okay. I asked if he had to urinate before he could go home and she told me that this hospital did not require that. My husband is 68 and has never had any kind of surgery, except very minor with a local. He will be put to sleep with anesthetic and is somewhat anxious. I guess I won't see him from a little after 6 a.m. until after 10:00 a.m. when they take him to the second recovery room. I read Just Julie's story and wish I could have emailed her. Our email address is  (edit) if anyone would like to provide any tips for after surgery and what it will be like for him. Thank you everyone. Click here to contact wiggyann Edit: e-mail address will be edited/masked for your security.     Post Edited By Moderator (bluebird) : 7/25/2007 7:20:29 PM (GMT-6)

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