Spot on rib was not cancer. Going to do 3 radiation treatments for place on sacrum bone. We feel very blessed that it is just one spot and not multiple ones. He tolerated the 25 treatments this...
Latest bone scan showed a spot in Danny's sacrum and something questionable in one of his ribs. Biopsy of sacrum said it is cancer....still waiting on final pathology to see what we're dealing with....
P34, thank you for the prayers. That is what we can use the most of. We truly do believe that the power of prayer is a gotten us this far. InTheShop and RobLee, the diarrhea and bloating he has now...
After 5 years of no cancer present, stupid beast showed up in urethra...this time it's only 4+4. Because of complications from paranormal hernia and kidney removal last year, radiation oncologist is...
Still at MD Anderson, trying to figure out what to do. Referred to radiation oncology, who are waiting on surgery notes and slides from local urologist. The MRI and CT were inconclusive about where...
After 5 years of no signs of cancer, our local urologist did a biopsy of poloyp in what's left of Danny's urethra...Pathology from a TUR of the urethra lesion and biopsy at the base or anastomotic...
Well, after 5 years of being cancer free, this stupid beast has reared it's ugly head. Danny had a biopsy of a poloyp/lesion whatever you want to call it. It was in what is left of the urethra....
We just got back from out checkup at MD Anderson, and Danny is still CANCER FREE!!!!!! It is hard for us to believe this considering where we were 5 short years ago. So all you Gleason 9ers, don't...
We're in western NC, but went to Duke after our local doctor diagnosed my husband with either prostate or bladder cancer...there were many tumors in alot of areas. We were not happy at all with our...
Hi Hilander, We are talking about Ductal. They gave Danny a Gleason of 4+4 at Duke. MD Anderson rescored it to 4+5...So we always had a Gleason score. Danny had biopsies taken from prostate, bladder,...
Dr Shu-Ming Tu is our oncologist at MD Anderson. I don't know how many patients he's treated, but he is one of the few doctors in US that we were able to find that has treated ductual. We believed in...
Hi Firemana, The first hospital we went to wanted to do chemo then surgery, and possibly radiation. They were treating it like regular prostate cancer. The surgeon that did biospy thought it was...
Hi Firmana, Welcome to our little family, but sorry about your father's diagnoses. As you are realizing, finding ductal prostate cancer info is very frustrating. Danny's cancer had already spread to...
Hi Hope, The days and weeks after diagnosis is probably the worst part of this journey. My husband was is also a member of the G9 club, with a twist...his is a rare form called ductal prostate...
Hey David, if you decide to go, you might want to double check that non stop from GSP. We've been having a hard time getting nonstop from Greenville to NO or Houston. If there is one, it's like...