Alan Charlton and Beryl live in England. Alan was 52 when he was diagnosed on 22 January 2003. His initial PSA was 1,500 ng/ml and his Gleason Score was 5+4=9. He was staged T4 and his only treatmetn option was Hormone. Here is his story:

Hi,

My story started back in November 2002. My wife Beryl advised me to stop drinking ( I was drinking a bottle of red wine every evening) as I was always tired and felt listless exhausted , so I took her advice.

Two months later I collapsed with unbearable pains in my back, was taken to hospital and found that I had advanced prostate cancer that had metasized to my bones (the whole skeleton) - this was after 2 bone scans.

The consultant put me on Zoladex, and sent me home , with six months to two years to live.

I was not happy with the urologist, so set about seeing a oncologist, who turn out to be a woman. She promptly gave me only 6 to 9 months to live. By this time I had gone back to the wine, and started to feel a bit better, so I went to see another urologist.

He was very good although his prognosis was about a year. He offered me Zometa and also Casodex as my PSA had started to rise after several months of lowering PSAs. He felt that i was not one to give in so sent me to a neighbouring county to see yet another oncologist, who said the medical world could do no more , only that my inner self-belief could keep me going.

Well I do believe my inner self-belief is working with the aid of a bottle of red wine a day. The last eight months has seen my psa stablise to 0.10 ng/ml, today's date is 1 March 2005 - over two years since my diagnosis, and I never felt better.

Never say die!

This year has been a good year, however PSA has started to rise, from 0.1 ng/ml to 2.1 ng/ml but urologist doesn't think its time to change any treatments as yet, so I have been adding various supplements, Isoflavones, Spirulina, Chlorella.

I don't see the urologist again until mid October.

Old Al

Al's e-mail address is: oldalberyl5657@yahoo.co.uk

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