Hello,

My dad has recently been diagnosted with prostate cancer.

He is a proud man, and doesnt want to “bother” anyone with his health issues, so at times I think that I am getting the sugar coated version.

Both times that he went for a biopsy, he got a blood infection. Has this happened to anyone else, and is this a regular occurance?? His doctor had him go in for a bone scan, I asked an aunt of mine, who was a nurse many years ago (30+) and she said that generally when they want a bone scan the cancer quite far along. Do doctors generally request a bone scan as a precaution or what?

The doctor told my dad that he will be going for radiation treatment for 6 weeks straight, every day. I was wondering what things I should expect…

This is all new to me, and any other questions I should ask the doctors when I fly in to be with my dad I would really appreciate!!

In other words, they removed his prostate and now it spread to his bones. Why isn’t it called bone cancer instead of prostate cancer? Can anyone give me some details on this cancer he has? Thanks! And God Bless!

My father has been diagnosed with non-small carcinoma in the right lung. The doctors also found a lesion in the back bone L4 which is reported as neoplastic. A biopsy on the lung tumor was performed and confirme malignancy. On that basis they are presuming that the bone lesion is also a malignant cancer tumor. However, what seems to be strange is that the CT scan results for the rest of the right lung, the left lung, abdomin, intestines, bladder, prostate, pancreas are totally clear. His oncology blood markers are also clear. The bone scan apart from the suspected lesion at L4 is totally clean, and his blood test results are acceptable. His general health conditions are good. He was on a diet, stopped it and gained 3KGS within a span of 10 days. He simply does not show any of the symptoms of a stage IV cancer patient. The doctors said they cannot operate because of the bone lesion. Had it been only in the lungs they would. We are concerned that they might be making the wrong connection

diabetic, type two, outside of bone cancer, good general health, had chemo and radiation, not elgible for any more

I had IMRT for prostate cancer one year ago. Now I have non-hodgkins lymphoma in my bone marrow. Has anyone heard of this risk?