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Subject: Husbands Cancer
Date: 07/22/2005
Hi, my husband is 60 yrs old. He was diagnosed with prostate cancer about 4 weeks ago. PSA 13.7, gleason score 7 (3+4), stage t2b. His surgery is scheduled for this Wed. July 27. His doctor decided to do a cat scan to rule out kidney stones before the surgery and they found a mass on his right kidney. They thought it was just a simple fluid filled cyst, but to make sure they did an ultrasound on Monday. Well the report says that it is a complex cyst and needs to be evaluated. His surgeon who is a urologic oncologist has recommended going ahead with the prostate surgery because it is all set up and doing the kidney evaluation during the recouperation period. But when I pushed for an answer on what the mass could be he said a tumor and gave it more than a 50% chance of being cancerous. I'm very nervous that if we go ahead with the surgery and he has kidney cancer that the new cancer will be more aggresive and we will be waisting time on a cancer we know is so slow growing that it could wait. If it is cancer in the kidney the doctor said it would be a seperate type, not a met of the prostate. My husband at first was sure he wanted to know what was going on before he had the surgery but now he is starting to lean towards just taking care of the prostate and dealing with the kidney later. I'm starting to get pretty scared. We have 5 children the youngest being 8 and only one out of high school. Thanks for any advice or support in advance

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