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Male 66 - 70
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Interview 50
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Explains how he came to have Cryosurgery and how it affected him.
Diagnosed with prostate cancer 1999, cryosurgery 2000, with some hormones.
Cancer
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Prostate Cancer
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Male 66 - 70
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Interview 51
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Describes the process of Cryosurgery and why he wished to have it.
Diagnosed with prostate cancer 1999, hormones, orchidectomy 1999, cryosurgery 2000.
Cancer
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Prostate Cancer
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Male 66 - 70
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Interview 52
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Describes how he felt having Cryosurgery after radiotherapy was not successful.
Diagnosed with prostate cancer 1994, TURP 1995, external beam radiation 1995, hormone treatment 1998, cryosurgery 2000.
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Cancer
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Prostate Cancer
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Cryosurgery for prostate cancer
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Cryosurgery for prostate cancer
Cryosurgery for prostate cancer
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Prostate Cancer
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Cryosurgery for prostate cancer
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Cryosurgery for prostate cancer
Cryosurgery for prostate cancer
Cancer
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Prostate Cancer
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Male 75 +
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Interview 14
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Describes how he found the operation a minor ordeal.
Diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1995. TURPs in 1995 and 1997 followed by an orchidectomy.
Cancer
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Prostate Cancer
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Male 75 +
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Interview 16
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Describes the complications experienced after the orchidectomy.
With a PSA of 380, cancer was assumed though not confirmed on biopsy. Orchidectomy 1999, and hormone treatment.
Cancer
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Prostate Cancer
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Male 48 - 60
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Interview 07
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Describes his experience of the Radical Prostatectomy.
Diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1999, prostatectomy in 1999.
Cancer
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Prostate Cancer
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Male 48 - 60
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Interview 09
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Describes his experiences of the hospital and discomfort afterwards.
Diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1997. Had a prostatectomy in 1997, external beam radiation and short hormone treatment 2000.
Cancer
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Prostate Cancer
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Male 66 - 70
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Interview 32
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Comments that he found the operation straight forward but had some discomfort afterwards.
Diagnosed with prostate cancer 1997, prostatectomy in 1997, external beam radiation in 1998.
Cancer
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Prostate Cancer
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Male 71 -74
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Interview 33
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Describes his experience of the operation.
Diagnosed with prostate cancer 1998, TURP in 1998, short hormone treatment and prostatectomy in 1998.
Cancer
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Prostate Cancer
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Male 71 -74
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Interview 54
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The prostatectomy was not as painful as he had expected it to be.
He was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1997 and had a radical prostatectomy. Five years later his PSA started to rise again so in 2003 he had some radiotherapy and hormone treatment.
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