Ignoring small prostate cancer to zap large bone cancer on hip! II

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Just returned from doc's, and will add these few lines. The doc wasn't there, but we wentthrough an entire dry run of about 40 minutes on the particle accelerator, which wasentirely filmed. Thankfully, lightning didn't strike it like it did the MRI machine last week!I'll be there every week day at 1 PM, expecting that I'll be able to stop in about 3 months.Cheers!When my small prostate cancer was diagnosed in July, 2008, every indication was thatwatchful waiting was appropriate to manage the date when it would be removed or zapped.My urologists ordered regular P.S.A. blood tests, which always ran about 3.3.By March of 2009, I had some mysterious falls and was beginning to have severe painin the right hip, knee, and leg.Tonight I'm sitting here all marked up for my first

radiation treatment, which is scheduledfor Tuesday. How did I jump from watchful waiting with a still-small prostate cancer to astage 2 bone cancer on my hip and pubic bone?Several biopsies were performed, but the expert in Boston was

certain: "Histologically, much of the specimem shows firbrofatty tissue with fibrovascular granulation tissue. Scattered throughout is a malignant neoplasm consisiting of mildly hyperchromatic spindle cells distributed in a copious myxocondroid mattix, which findings are consistent with a myxoid chrondrosarcoma."If any one else has been here and done this, I'd sure like to chat with you! Meanwhile, stay tuned., now 72 yrs old