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Stephen's Story

Ethnicity
White British
Age
50-59
Work
Office
Sexual Orientation
Straight
Geography
Yorkshire
Relationship status
Married/In a Civil Partnership
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Radical Prostatectomy (Surgery)

Tips and advice for any bladder or bowel side effects of treatment

Make sure you wear a pad daily and change twice a day or when needed.

Tips and advice for any sexual side effects of treatment

Work at what they advise you to do after your treatment and ask questions if not sure about anything

Tips and advice for any mental and emotional side effects of treatment

Try to learn to love the new you, it's not easy to do.

How this treatment impacted my life the most

I had the Prostate Removed, I had 20 doses of Radiotherapy and 18 months of Hormone Therapy before the Cancer was under control. The biggest impact was the effect on my life as I now can't walk more than 50m without stopping and I am in pain all day.

If I had to do it all over again, would I choose the same treatment?

Yes

Why did I give this answer?

My Cancer was locally advanced and if I had done the Radiotherapy first I wouldn't have been able to have the surgery so it could have been Chemo and then hormone therapy which I really didn't want to have to do.

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