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Prognosis for Stage 4 Metastatic Prostate Cancer

Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Apr 17 10:20am | Replies (95)

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@northoftheborder

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.

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May be the answer to that are two fold. First, you dont know how you respond to the treatment. As it turns out, everything is fine. Chemo is kind of like an insurance.
Second, Dr. Scholz, Dr. Kwon and others will say that if you hit it hard the first time, the chances of it coming back is less. It is counter intuitive, but that seems to be their experience.
Thanks for sharing.
Dont mind me. I am just another layman trying to make some sense of the whole thing. Thanks for sharing.