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Interview 32  

Interview 32

Age at Interview: 70
Sex: Male
Age at Diagnosis: 67
Background:

Brief outline:Diagnosed with prostate cancer 1997, prostatectomy in 1997, external beam radiation in 1998.


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Explains that after much debate his doctor agreed to a prostatectomy.

 



Well he [the doctor] explained that the the modern approach I should imagine, was radiotherapy because at one time it had been radical prostatectomy and in America it is currently still radical prostatectomy. At that time I didn't know anything about hormonal treatment, I only understood the two, it was either surgery or it was radiotherapy. Now my immediate reaction was, 'No I don't want radiotherapy, I want it out,' that was my gut instinct, to get rid of the source because I suspected that radiotherapy really wasn't going to get rid of the source. And after two consultations during which we had long debates the consultant said eventually 'Right I'll give you a cystoscopy which involved putting a telescope and a camera up the centre of the penis into the bladder,' and when I came to - this was done through day surgery, again there was no discomfort at all, nothing, it was an hour, I was in and out and that was it. He said 'Right I cannot see anything that would prevent you from doing surgery,' so eventually he decided that surgery would be the option I would have. I still didn't know anything at that stage about hormones.

And did he give you the option of doing nothing?

No, the watch and wait was mentioned but it certainly wasn't an option that I wanted to have, I wanted the prostate gland out.
Karol Sikora - Prostate cancer
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