[Panos]

My father has bone cancer, that started in the prostate. He is now 84 years old and was firstly diagnosed in July 2005. So far, he had brachythereapy together with cassodex, and the doctor was happy with his response over these two years. However, his PSA started to deteriorate last January and got worse around July. Now he has very bad pains in his hip and cannot walk without help. The doctor stopped the cassodex last month to see if that bad course could be reversed, but the tests showed a very high PSA again. The subsequent bone scan was not good and it revealed metastasis in the pelvis area. The doctor has put him now on Endoxan (in a pill form) and he has also undergone radiotherapy with strontium. He is also puting some sort of a patch in his arm.
I am very worried about him now and would like to have any opinions regarding prognosis, the therapy proposed or indeed any other therapy that one might consider in my father's case.

Many thanks in advance for your time
Panos

[UroDoc]

The treatment your father is undergoing seems very reasonable. There are different chemo therapies that can be given once prostate cancer outgrows hormonal control, these are usually given by an oncologist as opposed to a urologist.

[vikkistn]

Hello there,Like yourself my mother has recently been diagnosed with secondery cancers in her spine and her lymphnodes. She is herself a nurse in the hospital that she is currently being cared for. They can not find the primary source. She is 60 years old. She is having chemo just now but wishes to come home on thursday and we will care for her there. She has had radiotherapy on her neck to srink tumer hopefully but we shall wait and see. This is such a difficult thing to deal with as i bet you know. My wishes are with you. Any good coping tips?vikkix