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Last year my dad had prostate cancer and had it removed. I was told it’s rare that cancer comes back after prostate cancer.
Just recently they took tests and found more cancer, but they don’t know where it is yet. Is it really not that rare that men lose their lives due to cancer spreading from prostate cancer?
I’m so scared right now… I’m totally a daddy’s girl, and I don’t know what to think right now. Any advice or experiences you’re willing to share would be appreciated. I’m not sure what I’m expecting from you guys really… I guess I just want some security right now.
If you’re religious please say a pray for him. I’d appreciate it.
Thanks for listening to my ramble…
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January 30th, 2008 at 7:08 am
i know a dude who is 80 or so and was told he had prostate cancer like 20 years ago…so I wouldn’t consider it a death sentence OK?
January 31st, 2008 at 1:03 am
It’s better to start the treatment as soon as possible .
There is an expensive treatment ( not 100% but has the highest chance ) : Immunotherapy . ask his doctors about availability of this treatment for your father .
I wish you and your father all the best .God help you .
January 31st, 2008 at 6:55 pm
Prostate cancer is generally very slow-moving, but that’s only in general. There are tons of exceptions….and everyone is different. My dad had prostate cancer about 7 years ago and no more problems, my father-in-law died from it (sorry), but he lived ten years after his diagnosis, and he appreciated those ten years like no others.
BUT…don’t get ahead of yourself! It sounds like they don’t know much yet. Concentrate on enjoying your time together, whether it’s short or long.
February 3rd, 2008 at 1:04 pm
prostate cancer usually doesn’t kill people because most men that get it are old enough that they die from something else before it kills them. Its why in some cases it doesn’t even make a difference if its treated or not especially if urination is not becoming a problem. The biggest question is how old is your dad and what kind of health is he in…. If he’s getting up there in years and his health isn’t great then he could likely do nothing and simply accept that something else would likely kill him before the cancer did. On the other hand if he is moderatly young then he may be the fluke that got the old mans’ cancer and should try to get it taken care of.
February 6th, 2008 at 12:36 am
i believe in prayer and i am praying for your comfort and his healing. i am a cancer survivor. blessings. if you would like more prayer you can google spiritual warriors. they will respond positively.
February 6th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
I work with cancer children, I support them with Reiki and juice:
Juice for anemia, depression, immune system and to nourish to people with cancer and chemotherapy: 1 cup of alfalfa, 1 watercress cup, 1 green apple, 3 carrots, 1/2 beet, 7 almonds and 5 nuts. It is liquefied and drunken immediately. 1 or 2 times to the day.
February 6th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
My father has an incurable and fatal form of cancer that was found while looking for something else. It is very difficult to deal with family illnesses. My best advice for you personally is to be supportive for your family.
There are many types of prostate cancer and some types are more curable than others. It is possible that the cancer is another type of cancer and not prostate cancer. I assume that the MD’s took biopsy’s of the original cancer and are doing imaging studies (CT’s) and biopsy any tumors they find to locate the source of the current cancer. We are lucky to live in a period in which advances in cancer treatments have advanced greatly and it is likely that treatments will exist.
Good luck. I wish the best for you and your family.
February 8th, 2008 at 2:02 am
Don’t know if it will help, but look into this - 12 - Try Vitamin C therapy. A few years ago a cancer specialist came out with a paper that said the best cancer/infection fighter found to date was Interferon. At the time it was $15,000 a gram. The paper also said that Interferon was a by-product of the natural breakdown of Vitamin C in your body. Shortly after that the FDA tried to make Vitamin C by prescription only. Guess why? The FDA has the RDA for Vitamin C set at 64 mg a day, just enough to ward off scurvy. 42 Linus Pauling, who got a Nobel Prize for his work with Vitamin C and a second Nobel Prize for Organic Chemistry, said that 1000 mg a day should be the minimum and 2000 mg a day if you are sick or smoke. He played tennis almost daily until the day he died at 96. Personally, I got sick twice a year for 2 weeks at a time, for more than 20 years, with something to this day the doctors have no idea what it was, but for a week in the middle of those 2 weeks I was flat on my back. I started Vitamin C therapy once I gave up on the doctors. 43 I took enough to be asymptomatic for those 2 weeks. Too much and I got diarrhea and too little and I got sick. Within a narrow range, and it followed a bell curve over those 2 weeks, I was not sick. At the height I was taking 40,000 mg a day and 300,000 over the 2 weeks. After 2 years of that I have not been sick since – more than 15 years. Vitamin C acts as a natural diuretic so you need to drink a lot of water and watch your body in total, but my kidneys did not dissolve as the doctors predicted, or get massive kidney stones as other predicted. I did not dissolve my bones as some predicted or completely calcify my joints as others predicted. (If you find this useful, copy it and give it to a friend. Somebody got to Yahoo and they delete this as soon as they find it) 44 I had no side effects at all. It might be something to consider.