Joaquin Carballido

1. Lately they have increased my desire to urinate, where until recently could stand for hours without going to the service. Is it a symptom of something?

To properly answer this question is very important to know the age of the person who raises, because the symptoms when urinating, and specifically the increased frequency may be due to many causes. Prominent among them the benign growth of the prostate, urinary infections, some processes associated with aging itself and, less commonly, diseases tumorales. Tampoco forget that if the disturbance is transient may be related to some change in habits life or drug therapy initiated by any cause, regardless of prostatic disease. …read the rest of this entry»

Discussion Introduction: Turning adversity into a major

victory: Andrew Schorr, Robert, Tony, Don

SCHORR: Hello, and welcome to the American Cancer Society’s Cancer Survivors Network, the service created by and for cancer survivors. I’m your discussion leader, Andrew Schorr, in Seattle. Today’s topic, “Living with Prostate Cancer for Men 65 and Older.” On the phone with us are three prostate cancer survivors from across the country who have been diagnosed just in the past couple of years or are in treatment or have recently completed it. Over the next few minutes, we’ll discuss such issues as minimizing the physical and emotional side effects of cancer treatment, getting the best possible treatment, getting the issue of prostate cancer into the open with friends, family and the public, continuing to find information and support that you deserve.

Let’s begin. Robert Alexander joins us from Newville, Pennsylvania. Robert, you were diagnosed with prostate cancer three years ago and I understand that you are now getting hormonal therapy and that you are married. I think you told us that you’ve tackled the question of getting past anger about prostate cancer. How did you do that? How did you get past being angry that this happened to you?

ROBERT: I think I went right through about four or five of these aspects of I guess It’s anger, or it’s denial, you know, you deny that maybe the lab made an error and got the names mixed up and some guys pretend that cancer doesn’t exist in them. Some react with despair. I think I had a little bit of that . Procrastination - didn’t quite make it, didn’t have much of a chance to say I’ll wait awhile and see what happens, and there are very little in the way of alternatives. That sort of came later. But I think the anger part of it may have passed rather quickly and probably it was a good thing that it did. I went to a fiftieth high school reunion at the time and I overheard a couple of classmates talking about cancer and saying it was the best thing that ever happened to them, and that almost knocked me over.

SCHORR: You’d already been diagnosed at that time? …read the rest of this entry»