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Just diagnosed gobsmacked looking for advice
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Jul 29 10:17am | Replies (52)Comment receiving replies
Hi Friends, just wanted to post with my promised update.
Last month I came to this board with help trying to decide between surgery and radiation. I received so many wonderful replies that I was frankly overwhelmed that so many of you took the time to respond in such an informative and compassionate way.
And well now the decision is made, but was made by circumstances I did not anticipate. PMSA PET Scan revealed a three centimeter spot in the bone on my left arm that a subsequent biopsy confirmed was prostate cancer. So I have new diagnosis of oligometastatic prostate cancer and am now Stage 4, not Stage 3.
According my medical oncologist (and the radiation oncologist agrees) we will follow the statndard of care for this type of prostate cancer which is radiation plus 24 months of ADT. Not the answer I hoped for but no debate about surgery now. First shot is tomorrow. Am glad to be under treatment but know what I am looking at is pretty daunting. .
I will try and be as helpful as I walk throughy my journey as you all have been to me. Thanks again to you all.
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I had a similar diagnosis, except that the metastasis was very large and on my spine. It's eminently treatable these days.
Have you and your care team discussed adding an ARSI like Erleada to boost effectiveness of the ADT? And are they going to radiate both your prostate and the metastasis?
Best of luck, and keep us informed. I'm almost 3 years into stage 4 oligometastatic, and while the side-effects from the treatments are very real (and especially challenging in the first months), in other ways I feel stronger and healthier than I have in years. I hope the same for you.