About to start Prostate cancer Radiation. How might it effect your life . eg. work, sex , what ever,?

Answer 1

Briefly answering your question:
Radiation therapy uses high-energy x-rays to kill cancer cells. There are 2 types of radiation therapy used for prostate cancer:

External beam: radiation beamed from a machine outside the body
Internal: radiation emitted by tiny radioactive seeds implanted in the prostate gland
During external radiation, the primary target is the prostate gland itself. Areas around the prostate and the pelvis can also be exposed to varying doses of radiation. Side effects may include diarrhea, frequent and painful urination, rectal irritation or bleeding, and impotence.

With internal radiation, tiny radioactive seeds or implants are placed directly into the prostate gland to kill cancerous cells. This is also known as interstitial implantation or brachytherapy.

normal work, sex may/ay not be affected, you will lead a normal life.

Answer 2

While your going through radiation you may have some side effects. My friend had his prostate removed, and he has really no problems. He can still hold his urine and still has sex. I think you're in good shape; try to keep a positive attitude.

Answer 3

In 1990, I had Hodgkin's Lymphoma, stage 3-B, but I've survived. My doctors were great people, but they really couldn't tell me squat about cancer. During the year in treatment, I started learning about alternative medicine.

Here's what I've figured out--FIRST, somebody--probably sympathetic to the AMA--is getting my answers deleted as 'not a question or an answer', because they don't want you to know about this. So if you want to keep this information, you need to copy it to a wordpad document quickly, before it disappears. Hopefully, they'll give up and stop that nonsense soon, but I wouldn't count on it. Now, here goes--

Poor nutrition, a sedentary lifestyle and reduced oxygen weaken the immune system. Once that happens, our body becomes vulnerable to common stressors. Stressors can be environmental, like viruses, heavy metals, pesticides, food additives, electromagnetic waves or pollution. They can be internal things like emotional or job stress, or poisonous people in our lives. And aging is also a contributing factor.

[weak immune system] + [stressors] = MAJOR ILLNESS (cancer, diabetes, heart disease, etc.)

Our bodies have 60 trillion--yes, trillion--cells, and there are always some mutating into cancer cells, but a healthy immune system kills them before they have a chance to get a foothold in the body.
It takes a LONG time, usually, or an exrtaordinary amount of stressors, to degrade the immune system to the point where it won't do its job, but once cancer has formed, it will generally spread rapidly.


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I know of people whose cancer has 'spontaneously remitted' (WENT AWAY for no known reason) after they went on programs of herbs and nutrition that restart our immune systems.

The American Medical Association (AMA) and the pharmaceutical companies control medical law and the FDA in this country with heavy lobbying and a revolving door policy. WHY would they want to do this? It's about the money. In 2004, medicine (doctors, hospitals, researchers and pharmaceutical firms) received 1.1 TRILLION dollars--1/4th of the total earnings (GNP 4.4 trillion) in the U.S. This is astounding, because it's like 1/4th of our citizens--about 75 MILLION people--worked the whole year just to pay the nation's medical expenses!!

That's just too big to care about individuals. You and your family must look out for yourselves to stand a chance of being healthy. This is not a joke, and I'm not selling anything. There is MUCH that cancer victims can do about it. Best of luck

Answer 4

Do you have an addictive nature? Yes, the computer can become an obsession. Make it a point to back away from the computer and do something constructive--hobby, exercise, drive to the store for something needed around the house, yard work, project, etc.

Answer 5

Get off the computer and get on the phone to your Radiation Oncologist NOW! This is a question you should be directing to that person.

Answer 6

It is going to make your life a lot different. My father went through it and he was a very different person.

There is a great medical website that will help you deal with it. It is called http://medsocial.com/home.aspx.

There are also some great videos about cancer on the website too, just scroll down to prosterate cancer. http://medsocial.com/healthvideos.aspx.

Answer 7

What type of radiation therapy - beam or seed implants?

Answer 8

Please, sir, search Mandy Patikin's website about prostate cancer.

There's alternatives for a cure.

Answer 9

I appreciate the thought.

Probly my own business I think.