\u201cJou histologie is terug en dit bevestig kanker.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
D\u00eds woorde wat ek soort van verwag het, maar nie wou hoor nie. Dit was Vrydag 8 Maart vanjaar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wat begin het as \u2019n toets vir slaap-apnee, het vir my in \u2019n prostaatkanker-diagnose ge\u00ebindig.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Op 49 is ek amper \u201cte jonk\u201d, want prostaatkanker is mos vir ou mans \u2013 maar dis \u2019n mite. Ja, dit kom baie meer voor onder mans bo 50, maar dit maak jou nie immuun omdat jy jonger as 50 is nie. Ek het middel Januarie vanjaar \u2019n kardioloog gaan spreek, wat \u2019n verskeidenheid toetse gedoen het \u2013 waaronder \u2019n PSA-toets. Dis \u2019n bloedtoets wat die vlakke van die prostaat-spesifieke antigeen in jou bloed meet. Die uitslag van di\u00e9 toets kan dui op verskeie toestande, soos \u2019n vergrote prostaat of prostaatkanker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die telling van my PSA-toets was verhoog en ek is na \u2019n uroloog verwys, wat verdere toetse soos \u2019n DRE (\u201cdaai vingertoets\u201d) gedoen het. Dit het daarop gedui dat als nie pluis is met my prostaat nie en toe het hy voorgestel dat ek \u2019n prostaatbiopsie ondergaan. Dit het bevestig dat ek prostaatkanker het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Baie mans is bang vir \u201cdaai vingertoets\u201d, maar dis drie sekondes van ongemak wat heel moontlik jou lewe kan red. In my geval is die beste behandeling \u2019n radikale prostaatektomie. Oor \u2019n paar maande (ek moet eers gewig verloor) word \u2019n radikale prostaatektomie (totale verwydering van die prostaat) gedoen en as als goed verloop, behoort ek kankervry te wees, hoewel daar geen waarborge is nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die afgelope paar jaar word kanker by al meer jonger mense gediagnoseer, maar dit kan \u2013 volgens verskeie navorsingstudies \u2013 bloot wees omdat tegnologie verbeter het en baie meer kankers baie vroe\u00ebr gediagnoseer word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Volgens Kansa se webblad is die kanker wat die meeste onder mans voorkom, prostaatkanker, en onder vroue is dit borskanker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Volgens die WGO se internasionale agentskap vir kankernavorsing sal een uit elke vyf mense w\u00eareldwyd in hul leeftyd kanker ontwikkel. \u201cDie voorkoming van kanker het een van die mees betekenisvolle openbare- gesondheid-uitdagings van die 21ste eeu geword. Dit speel \u2019n kritieke rol in die stryd teen kanker. Gebaseer op huidige wetenskaplike bewyse, kan minstens 40% van alle kankergevalle voorkom word met doeltreffende prim\u00eare voorkomingsmaatre\u00ebls, en verdere sterftes kan verminder word deur vroe\u00eb opsporing van gewasse.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kanker is dus nie noodwendig \u2019n doodsvonnis nie, maar dit moet ook nie afgemaak word as iets wat \u201cnie met my sal gebeur nie\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
N\u00e1 my eerste konsultasie by my uroloog het ek dadelik begin oplees oor prostaatkanker\u2013 wat dit is, hoe dit versprei, hoe dit bestry word, wat gebeur indien dit nie behandel word nie \u2013 en dit het gehelp om my geestelik voor te berei as ek wel die slegte nuus kry. Die stryd teen kanker is halfpad gewonne wanneer jy weet presies waarteen jy veg. Dikwels weet mense by wie kanker gediagnoseer word, nie wat om te verwag nie, en dit kan sieldodend wees. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die vrees vir die onbekende is hel, maar deur die onbekende te verander in die bekende, raak die vrees baie minder van \u2019n faktor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ja, natuurlik is ek bang dat ek nie 100% van die kanker ontslae gaan wees n\u00e1 die operasie nie, maar ek weet ook dat enige oorblywende kanker beveg kan word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Vandag weet ek baie meer oor prostaatkanker as wat ek sewe of agt weke gelede geweet het, en bewapen met daardie kennis en met die ondersteuning van my geliefdes en \u2019n merkwaardige spesialis se vaardighede kan ek hierdie bul by die horings pak \u2013 en hom verslaan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ek deel hierdie baie persoonlike storie, want dalk help dit ander mans om die PSA-bloedtoets gereeld te laat doen, want dit is die maklikste manier om uit te vind of jou prostaat gesond is. .<\/span> Vir nog inligting oor prostaat\u00adkanker, besoek cansa.org.za; mskcc.org; mayoclinic.org en cancerfoundation.org.za\/prostate-cancer\/.<\/span> Ben Burger is die bestuurder van Boland Media en WP Media se uitleg- en proefleesafdeling.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Soos ek dit 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