If Austin’s case of cancer is advanced enough to be causing him unexpected and severe pain, he must either had not been properly diagnosed before, or has not been seeking treatment.
I am just lowly Navy Veteran, with no public status at all, I get examined for lung and bladder cancer every year.
They tell you if anything has changed in any way.
Post operative pain for prostate surgery is pretty common.
“If Austin’s case of cancer is advanced enough to be causing him unexpected and severe pain,...”
I was DX’d with PCs in 2007. The gold-standard then and now is robotic surgery which is almost routine and rarely more than a few hours in the hospital. Then radiation as a salvage process if the PCs has escaped the capsule(gland) and had spread into the margins of surrounding tissue.
Both of these processes rarely cause problems for more than a day or so. A week to ten days and you’re back at it.
So, this tells me that there is something more serious going on that has not been disclosed.