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Male 71 -74
Interview 53  

Interview 53

Age at Interview: 72
Age at Diagnosis: 72
Background: A guest house proprietor, married with 4 children. Ethnic background: White British.
Brief outline:He had urinary symptoms for about 5 years, and in February 2005 had a PSA test which was slightly raised. After a biopsy, prostate cancer was diagnosed and treated with High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU). He recovered quickly from the operation with few side effects and little discomfort.


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Describes what it was like to have a catheter after HIFU. He had very few side effects after the operation.

 



And how did you find managing the catheter?

Really you can sort of blow up anything into a great thing. I mean a catheter is something you can live with but I had it in for two and a half weeks and I was really glad when it came out. You don't move freely, walking with a catheter is, is, it's not sort of ideal but you can get around, you're not in great pain, just a little bit uncomfortable.

You had a bag strapped to your leg?

To begin with in the hospital it was just hung on a rack alongside and then subsequently they gave me a bag for my leg and that's how I left hospital.

What other sort of side effects did you notice since you'd been home, did you have any other problems?

Really very few. I mean I was warned that I should expect both blood and sort of debris in my urine, which I have had. And even now, nearly five weeks after, I get the odd trace of blood at the start of urination, but only a drop or two, nothing now very much.
Karol Sikora - Prostate cancer
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