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Prognosis for Stage 4 Metastatic Prostate Cancer
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Apr 17 10:20am | Replies (95)Comment receiving replies
Dr. Scholz put it this way. Chemo represents another path to deal with the cancer cells, by disrupting it's DNA etc. Intuitively, it should enhance the cure rate. So perhaps it will reduce that 10%? Is it worth it? Perhaps that is a matter for the patient and his medical team.
Dont mind me. I am just another layman trying to make some sense of the whole thing.
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Yes, absolutely it's between you and your medical team.
Since my treatment has kept my PC totally inactive for 2½ years now (undetectable PSA), my onco team and I are happy to hold chemo in reserve for the future, rather than using it now when there seems to be nothing active for the chemo to fight (maybe a relatively few deeply dormant cancer cells hiding out among billions of healthy ones).
The videos I watched about the triple treatment referred, I think, to castrate-resistant metastatic prostate cancer or non-oligo-metastatic PC, but I might be misremembering, and also, of course, I'm a layperson as well.