At my age 57; I’m 70 now,. I was diagnosed with a Gleeson score off the charts, everything was 10 through 16, and yes I know they stopped at 10 but my Gleason’s were horrible. My PSA was 4.87. I had pain and trouble urinating, which is what made me seek doctors. Because of the low PSA I was not diagnosed for almost 2 1/2 years. When diagnosed I immediately started on Lupron and am still on Lupron today. After researching, I decided to go with HDR Breaky therapy at Ronald Reagan Medical Center in Los Angeles. It wasn’t smooth and I had a nine month long recovery. One of the worst in their history. I lost ED function and immediately went on Flomax. I don’t know why I had as much trouble as I did from something that should not have happened. Since then, I have been on several different injections and several different pills like anbuteriane and Erleada. Never once was I cancer free nor without symptoms. Now for my 70th birthday, my PSA is 74 and they are looking to do nuclear medicine on me. Mine has always been stage four from diagnosis and radiation had helped control some of the spread but now it is fully involved in the spine and, becoming painful.
So my thoughts on HDR Breaky therapy was that it was one step of a multi step treatment program. I think more radiation or perhaps a different onset of chemotherapy may have been more effective. But we all have those doubts. I do know Erleada did not work and it was hard to get my doctor to recognize that, I don’t think there’s any treatment that gets rid of all the cancer cells and so it’s opportunity to reoccur or to land in bones or other tissues is modern high. And I think anyone who gets a diagnosis of cancer should stay on some kind of treatment program for life . Especially change your diet. Seek to add alkaline foods and cut out the sugar and eat lots of green vegetables and high quality organic meats. My thoughts…