Marcel H. Testimonial: BPH and Prostate Cancer
7 years of hindsight.
June to October: construction of a small vacation house to visit North America (the trip of my dreams). Life is Beautiful.
The following March: Everything is ready for departure: boarding of the vehicle on April 8 in Antwerp. At the beginning of the month, last medical check before departure: PSA level 6.41 ng / l and normal ultrasound (no tumor).
In mid-March, my attending physician went on an internship on undetectable cancers of the prostate. Back from training, she calls me in for a biopsy.
She has to tap into her pitch to convince me to do it.
We are 3 weeks before departure. The biopsy was performed on March 22nd. We had the results on April 2: the right lobe of the prostate was completely affected (9 out of 9 samples were positive) with Gleason index cancer (4 + 3).
Catastrophe > life changes, we are crushed, the trip is canceled.
We go from doctor to doctor and search the internet. One night, my wife thinks of François Mitterrand and his prostate cancer.
She gets up and searches the google. We discover the Beljanski Foundation. The following day, we phoned the foundation and then Maison Beljanski in New York to order the extracts: Pao pereria and Rauwolfia vomitoria. The medical visits continue as I got an MRI in St. Nazaire, on May 9 > the cancer crossed the prostate wall (we are panicked); on May 13, bone scintigraphy in Nantes > good news: no damage to the skeleton.
During our visits to the doctor, we confirmed I would get prostate surgery. We must first go through the oncology consultation meeting in St. Nazaire which, for a prostatic adenocarcinoma classified T2NX Mo Gleason 4 + 3, but probably a T3 classification on the right, suggests:
- Standard treatment: Hormone therapy and Radiotherapy.
- Optional treatment: Surgery with lymph node dissection > depending on the result, additional postoperative radiotherapy will probably be necessary.