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Q: What Happens Next With Prostate Cancer?
asked by: dynamicdebz on April 28th, 2007
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My Father in law was given the diagnosis of prostate cncer on Thursday.
For the past couple of years he has shown symptoms of prostate troubles, always going to the loo etc.
My own father had it but had radiotherapy & was cured in the early stages.
The dr's have told my father in law that his cancer is inoperable but they ill give him tablets, what will these tablets be?
They have also said he could have 5 years left to live or maybe 10 or 15, whay so vague? He is 65 this year.
Will he start to become very ill when his time is near, he has no symptoms at the moment apart from peeing all the time?
Any advise is appreciated as my mother in law is the one that is suffering now, she is making herself ill, crying all the time.
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Llewellyn
replied on April 29th, 2007
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The only question that I can answer with confidence is why doctors are vague with a life expectancy.

The first reason is that everyone is different. Some people live a very long time with a disease, while someone else with the same disease might pass away very quickly from it. There are just too many variables involved when we're talking about people.

The second reason is because when doctors tell someone they have a certain amount of time to love, we'll say five years as an example, the person often worries, especially as it gets closer to that five year mark. The person can actually make themselves sick from the worrying. Many people die when the doctor predicted that they would due to stress more than due to their original disease.

So doctors are now encouraged to not give concrete time predictions when it comes to death.

As for what tablet he might be taking, you can check this site out and see if it sounds like what he might be taking. I don't know much about this.
http://www.prostateinfo.com/

This link has all kinds of links to prostate cancer articles. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/prostat ecancer.html
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