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| Hello There:
I would appreciate a little help for my girlfriend's dad. Forgive me if I
don't use the
right words, I am not too knowledgeable in prostate cancer.
He is 71, he has practiced sports all his life, lean and healthy until 6 or
7 months ago when he noticed he was going to urinate too many times.
He was diagnosed with having some cancer cells in the Prostate, placed in
some kind of drug treatment, (Casodex and others) and then given around 37
sessions of Radiation. A week or so after finishing his radiation, he was
given the ok to travel to visit his daughter (my girlfriend). The doctor
said he was fine.
We go to walk with him 5 days a week, (fast walking for about 40 minutes)
because he feels great every time he goes, but in the last 4 days or so, he
has mentioned to his daughter he has some irritation, he blames maybe
certain spices in the food or about 1/4 of small glass of wine he had about
7 days ago. I believe what he gets is diarrhea, and I noticed that he still
goes to the bathroom to urinate a lot. (he will go before we start walking
and maybe 15 min. later and at the end of the walk again).
My question is this:
If he got the drug treatment and the radiation, shouldn't he be back to
normal?
I was planning to invite him to eat in my house (I eat very healthy) is
there anything I should be aware of about food?
Is normal that he still has to go to urinate so often?
Thank you for your reply in this subject, I will read it before I show it to
my girlfriend.
I don't want her to get too worried.
Regards,
M.
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