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Male 66 - 70
Interview 24  

Interview 24

Age at Interview: 70
Sex: Male
Age at Diagnosis: 66
Background:

Brief outline:Diagnosed with prostate cancer 1996. TURP in 1996, external beam radiation following diagnosis.


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Explains how he developed problems with the back passage after radiotherapy.

 



There were 20 sessions of that [radiotherapy] and it was halfway through that I discovered that I was having problems with the back passage which I mentioned to them and they well you know you were sort of told that this could happen. And that gradually got worse, even when the treatment finished that got worse and that's still there and I am told that it will never heal up. What it is it's damage, I think it's called proctitis, it's damage to the back passage caused by the radiation treatment, it's radiation to healthy cells. The tissue doesn't heal up properly and the result is you have to keep your bowels as regular as you possibly can because if you don't you'll just aggravate it, you'll make it worse. And also the frequency is increased, instead of possibly just going once or even twice a day you know at the extreme you might have to go three times a day, but the plus sign is you do go as soon as you wake up.

Is it sore as well?

It's not now, it was for the first, it can be painful you know immediately after you've had an evacuation but it's nothing like as sore and as painful as what it used to be and I very rarely use any treatment now. Now the treatment, I tried all the treatments that there are for back passage problems and the best one I was found was Proctofoam.

Is that like a sort of cream?

It is actually a foam and it's inserted into the back passage via a crude kind of hypodermic, like a syringe.
Karol Sikora - Prostate cancer
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