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DiscussionTreatment options: radiation without ADT?
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Jul 28 9:17am | Replies (39)Comment receiving replies
Replies to "Hi Phil! Sounds like you had surgical removal of your prostate and the pathology confirmed Gleason..."
Yes, had prostate removed 2019. Having PSMA PET this Tuesday actually. Even though I prefer not to have hormones I have to be realistic about the situation: Clean margins, nodes negative, vesicles negative….yet, it’s back…..or most probably it never left, right? So the bugger is persistent and could have evolved in time into something more aggressive. It scares me to think that if they don’t get it this time, my future will be totally hormone and chemo dependent with all the side effects you’ve all mentioned. And as was also mentioned, doctors are slow to embrace new thinking and tend to rely on tried and true (or not) methods to cover their asses.
Sloan is very much in this camp and follow their own time tested protocols to the letter.
I feel that if your initial treatment is radiation hormones may or may not be advised based on your Decipher score. My best friend ( Gleason 3+4) just had Cyberknife at Sloan and received NO hormones since his Decipher score indicated low chance for metastasis. I did mot have this test in 2019 so the docs probably have to err on the side of caution and overtreat. Just hope it’s 6 months and not longer….will keep you posted!