First breast cancer now prostate cancer

Thanks steelrose. I've calmed down after my original diagnosis and it's taken me a few weeks to get up to speed on prostate cancer treatment and prognosis. It appears that it is a tidy, less complicated cancer compared to bc. After all, this is just a walnut-sized gland, and there's only one of them If the disease is confined to the prostate, which looks to be the case with my intermediate version, and I choose surgery, then I have better follow-up treatment options if it recurs. If I didn't have bc I may have chosen radiation, but you lose surgery as an option then since the prostate is turned to mush by rads.

Of course, prostate removal has its side-effects which include incontinence for weeks afterwards (the urethra passes through the prostate and has to be cut and rejoined). And erectile dysfunction is guaranteed for months (often years) depending on how well you heal, and how good a job the surgeon does at sparing the nearby nerve that controls erections.

Mara, Mominator, MinusTwo and Lucy55, thanks for your good wishes. Today, seven days post surgery, I got my path results which showed a contained tumor with clear margins, and no lymph involvement. That's as good as it gets! My catheter was also removed. So, while treatment for bc took seven months, treatment for pc took seven days. This is certainly food for thought.