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I’m starting Enzalutamide and hormone injections. Any comment?

Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Feb 23 4:58am | Replies (8)
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@edmond1971

Hello.

Thanks for reaching out and you will find a great community here to help. Sharing a bit more about your situation will help the contributors add to this post. What is your overall health?, PSA history?, have you had surgery?, what imaging test showed the results mentioned?

ADT (Androgen deprivation therapy) is the go-to treatment for biochemical recurrence (prostate cancer that returns after surgery) and Enzalutamide is an androgen receptor signal inhibitor (it is not a form of chemotherapy) and is usually prescribed for patients that have been on ADT and the cancer has progressed from castrate-sensitive to castrate-resistant.

I am currently on ADT with Leuprolide and Abiraterone as I'm still castrate-sensitive, but Enzalutamide is next up when/if it is needed.

Please let me/us know if this is helpful and I'm sure more will help out

Keep the Faith

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donmc | @donmc | Feb 19 7:20am

Yes. Helpful of course. I guess I need to work on terms and definitions. I am very new to all this. I showed up for my first radiation appointment and learned that was not happening, but I was getting a double hormone injection. That was around Feb 2nd. PET scan show the prostate cancer had spread too much for radiation. My original Doctor, an Urologist, had decided Enzalutamide would be best for me. I have a thirty day supply and will start next week. Dread. Donmc

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