So this is metastatic, whatever we call it, cancer. Time passes a little bit now and again and we go back to the urology department and now these options once again are out on the table but the surgery one is no longer an option and of the other two I thought I might receive the radiotherapy, personally, but you know I'm not the expert, I just thought that, but they said the hormone injection is the thing to go for at the moment, this is the way to go, not the therapy, the hormones. And before the injection of the hormones commences we have some tablets which does the same thing so for a couple of months or so I was on these tablets, I forget the name of them, leading to the commencement of the injections at the local health centre which I've had now, I must've had about 3 of those now, they're every 3 months. There's a monthly one and a 3 monthly one, I'm on the 3 monthly injections.
Did they explain why you weren't a suitable candidate for radiotherapy if that's what you thought you might've liked?
Mm they said there were side-effects from it which at this stage they didn't think it was suitable, there were nasty side-effects and they thought that the hormone treatment was the kinder way to go about it at the moment, so one accepts it, that's it, I had to accept that. But yes I was, something at the back of my mind, engineering-wise made me think that the therapy was more of a solid and more preventative method than these injections but they, they said no to that, the hormones was the best way to go so you know I had to accept that. |
