One advanced prostate cancer survivor's story of living through incurable prostate cancer with one life extending treatment at a time. Time For a New Plan The first thing the doctor suggested was to have it radiated. They have a radiation center there that could spot treat the tumor on T5. So off to a new radiation oncologist. The treatment was done in July 2021 and would be ten days of radiation to the spine. No special prep for this like the prostate radiation needed, just

One advanced prostate cancer survivor's story of living through incurable prostate cancer with one life extending treatment at a time. How Short Can a Life Extension Be : Short Not only did they change me from Zytiga to Xtandi but I was changed from Firmagon shots, first to Eligard in April and then Lupron shots after checking my testosterone and finding it was out of range high. Now that doesn't mean I had more testosterone than I know what to do with, it meant I was running

One advanced prostate cancer survivor's story of living through incurable prostate cancer with one life extending treatment at a time. The Day I Did Something That Never Would Have Happened Before Cancer My family and I were involved in fundraising in 2020 and 2021 for a large national prostate cancer nonprofit. We hit the ground running early in 2020 despite Covid. During that time the place I got my haircut was shutdown and my hair was getting longer than usual. I was still

One advanced prostate cancer survivor's story of living through incurable prostate cancer with one life extending treatment at a time. Purpose? I'm going to backtrack just a bit, in December 2020 I had a feeling God was asking me, "Now that you have this cancer, what are you going to do with it?". Not what are you going to do about it, but with it. That is when I decided my purpose with whatever time I may have left was to work to prevent as many men as possible from ending u

One advanced prostate cancer survivor's story of living through incurable prostate cancer with one life extending treatment at a time. Time for My Second Radiation Treatment I believe it was in September 2019 that my radiation oncologist told me he would like to radiate my prostate since it was my largest tumor in my body. The preparations needed for this radiation provided some entertainment after the fact. They needed to put two gold markers into my prostate so that they co

Starting the Group One year ago I made the final decision to start a Facebook group just for men dealing with prostate cancer. This group is different from what the Mohawk Mission's main purpose of prostate cancer awareness is. It was our first venture in providing support to men. I always thought there are plenty of support groups available, I need to help men before they get diagnosed. Then I saw the importance of men supporting men in Man Up to Cancer's The Howling Place.

One advanced prostate cancer survivor's story of living through incurable prostate cancer with one life extending treatment at a time. Extension One Part 1 As I mentioned in my last blog I started ten days of radiation to my lower spine one week after being told in the ER I had prostate cancer. I was also started on Casodex which was my start of hormone therapy. The radiation oncologist put me on a high dose steroid to prevent any swelling around the area of the spinal cord d

One advanced prostate cancer survivor's story of living through incurable prostate cancer with one life extending treatment at a time. The Diagnosis I'm Tracy Morgan, I was diagnosed at age 58 with metastatic stage four prostate cancer which spread to my bones from my neck, spines, ribs, hips and right femur. My only problem before diagnosis was six weeks of extreme lower back pain. I had to go through physical therapy first and then finally was scheduled for a MRI. That was