The Prostate Wife - Dealing with Androgen Deprivation Therapy

Click here to see Tony ringing the bell at Bay Pines VA Hospital Today we celebrated the end of radiation therapy, but we still have a LONG way to go. July 26th, 2023 After ten years with Tony and just two years married, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. He had gotten a PSA blood test because his 72 year old father was diagnosed in 2022. Our family had never heard of a PSA blood test to screen for prostate cancer and because the chances of curing the disease are much higher when caught early, my husband’s Dad insisted all his sons all be tested.   Oddly, Tony is not biologically related to his dad and he was the only male in the family with an elevated score. We learned in December 2022 that he had an elevated PSA of 26. A normal score is two.  In the weeks following after an MRI and full body scan we learned that the cancer had affected two-thirds of the gland, but it was unclear if the cancer cells had moved beyond the wall of the gland. Needless to say, the diagnosis came as a