New Member - Husband was Watchful Waiting

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Welcome to pearlynautilus8 baconseedclub@... who has

joined the ProstateCancerSupport

group and who says:

My husband was diagnosed a year ago, was suggested

" watchful waiting " , now he's told it's too late for surgery, I would

like some advice and support. Thanks.

Sorry to hear of your problems but welcome to the

club you never wanted to join. You’ll find plenty of friendly folk on

this List who will do what they can to help you through.

You might find it useful to visit www.prostatecancerwatchfulwaiting.co.za

a site which I aimed at providing information concerning Watchful Waiting or

Active Surveillance as it is better known. You may also like to visit YANA - You Are Not Alone Now www.yananow.net

a site set up for newly diagnosed people. The first section gives some basic

information in plain language with links to more complex and technical sites.

The second section of the site is where men are invited to tell their prostate

cancer stories and how they arrived at their decisions regarding treatment.

Many people have mailed to say how useful they have found this, especially

because most of the men are happy to respond to specific questions. The section

of the site can be found by clicking the link labelled Experiences or going to http://www.yananow.net/Experiences.html

But in any event, please post some details of your

husband’s diagnosis – your Age, your PSAs leading up to the

diagnosis, your Gleason Score and Staging (these terms are all explained on the

YANA site) and tells us why you have been told

that it is too late for surgery. Ask any questions you might have. Just

remember – there are no dumb questions. We all started off where you are

now, but we’ve collectively learned a lot over the years.

All the

best

Terry Herbert

in Melbourne Australia

Diagnosed

‘96: Age 54: Stage T2b: PSA 7.2: Gleason 3+3=6: No treatment. June '04:

TURP. Nov '06 PSA 31.4

My site

is at www.prostatecancerwatchfulwaiting.co.za

It is a tragedy of

the world that no one knows what he doesn’t know, and the less a man

knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything. Joyce Carey