This is our news page, sharing items that might be of interest to members and visitors alike.
16 October 2023
An item in the Guardian™ newspaper that might be of interest to prostate cancer sufferers: It's for those for whom drug treatment isn't working because of cancer resistance to the drugs.
13 March 2023
AGM agenda:
- Apologies.
- Minutes of 2022 AGM
- Chairman Report
- Treasurers Report
- Appointment of Officers and Trustees.
- Future PSA Blood Tests?
- Web Site and Social Media.
- Future Events.
- A.O.B.
13 February 2023
NHS Gloucestershire are reaching out to men about Prostate Cancer with a talk at the All Nations Community Centre on March 1st 2023. These two links give more detail (Facebook account required):
12 January 2023
An article in the Guardian suggests a postcode lottery for prostate cancer diagnosis.
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Philip Booth, one of our Stroud members, has recently started a blog. It's called, 'My Unexpected Guide; learning from cancer.' You can find it by clicking on this link: https://myunexpectedguide.blogspot.com/p/about.html and here's an extract about his diagnosis... |
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| The Cotswolds Prostate Cancer Support Group arranged an awareness evening on 31st May 2017 at Marling School in Stroud. I went along and it was suggested that I film the event to help raise awareness. While there, I joined the other 435 men to have a PSA test. At the end of June a letter arrived saying it was 18.96 ng/ml. Nothing to worry about as I had no real symptoms and PSA tests are not very reliable. However this led to a further PSA test, MRI, bone scan and a biopsy. On 19th September 2016 I was told I have an ‘invasive’ prostate cancer (for those liking numbers it was 56cc, Gleason (3+4) 7 and T3a). Great news in many ways as it looks like it hadn’t spread, but I was also told that because of my age (56 then), this was ‘serious and needed attention’.
Read Phil's blog to find out what treatment he decided to opt for and watch the short film he made about an inspirational Cancer Festival - Trew Fields
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From Natalie Beech of Flourish:
