Make sure you wear a pad daily and change twice a day or when needed.
Work at what they advise you to do after your treatment and ask questions if not sure about anything
Try to learn to love the new you, it's not easy to do.
I had the Prostate Removed, I had 20 doses of Radiotherapy and 18 months of Hormone Therapy before the Cancer was under control. The biggest impact was the effect on my life as I now can't walk more than 50m without stopping and I am in pain all day.
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My Cancer was locally advanced and if I had done the Radiotherapy first I wouldn't have been able to have the surgery so it could have been Chemo and then hormone therapy which I really didn't want to have to do.
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