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Managing Prostate Cancer
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Managing Prostate Cancer

The speaker shares their thoughts on dealing with prostate cancer, discussing the role of healthcare professionals in making them feel better. They express relief at stopping implants that lowered their stamina but express concern about upcoming PSA test results, hoping for control over the cancer.

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is what could a health care professional do to alleviate my concerns about my health this year? And I'm just sort of kind of thinking that through. What could a health care professional do to make me feel better? Well, I think the clear and simple answer to that is, well, I suppose it's two-fold really in relation to the prostate cancer. The first is I'm being allowed to feel better because I've been allowed to come off the implants which degrade my stamina so much, which is hard for me as an active person. makes me feel better. But at the same time, I've obviously got the concern of the PSA test, which I have to have, which is obviously the blood test, which detects or hopefully doesn't detect sinister activity around the prostate. And I'm hoping that this year in July, my my healthcare professional, my oncologist is going to give me good news and when I get my PSA test done, you know, that's going to be well under control. Hopefully it's going to be below 2. It was previously up in kind of 18s, 20s before all my treatment. Obviously if it's back up towards those levels, then we have to think again, having had some fairly aggressive treatment for it. But, you know, otherwise I'm in good health. So, you know, what can I do to be made to feel better? Well, that's already happened really. It's because I've come off the implants, but is there going to be an unfortunate message arising from the tests that I have having come off the implants? And that's something that's going to preoccupy me until the results in July.

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