Alan Wyatt and Molly live in West Sussex UK. He was 61 when he was diagnosed in September 2004. His initial PSA was 8.0 ng/ml, his Gleason score was 2+2=4 and he was staged T1b. His choice fo treatment was to go for Watchful Waiting. Here is his story.

Cancer was found after having a second BPH (Benign Prostate Hyperplasia) operation. The second operation was to tidy up after the first one 3 years earlier because I was losing a lot of blood.

I am a lucky man because after the second operation I have finished up with a urethral stricture, urine retention for which I have to Self Catheterize daily and awful pain which I am told is prostratitis, so at the moment the PCa is the least of my worries.

My biopsy score only came from the central core, done from TURP chippings. I have not got a lot of confidence with my hospital. I have been getting a lot of groin pain my GP said it prostatitis and treated me with antibiotics for 8 weeks.

I still had the pain so he sent me back to the Hospital and they suggested to me that I was imagining the pain because I knew I had PCa.

My GP took blood tests and my PSA had risen to 10 ng/ml. He has referred me to another Hospital and I am still waiting for appointment.

Visited urologist last week told me he could do nothing for my prostatitis (would grow out of it?) PSA 5.1 nothing to worry about see me again in 6 months.

Alan's e-mail address is: walmol@msn.com

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