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When do you get assigned an oncologist?
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Aug 28 8:14am | Replies (26)Comment receiving replies
ask questions I didn't do my home work and I m fucking miserable , I would have done radiation but I was rushed into surgery a week later after I found out , now hormone treatment , 8 months into this had lupron shot and Erleta probably spelling that wrong , but my PSA is at .06 where it was at a 15.08 but I feel as the urologist and surgeon got together and rushed me . radiation would have been a much easier way. the side effects that I personally am going through, make me wonder at this point would I be crazy to say that took 60 years to get cancer , so wouldn't make sense that it going to take that long to come back , I really want back my life
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I'm so sorry for your bad experience. Since they gave you surgery, I hope that means they caught your cancer when it was still at an early stage.
The HERO study showed Orgovyx (pills) to be as effective as Lupron injections, but without some of the topical side-effects like swelling and rash, and also that Orgovyx lets your testosterone come back faster after you stop; however, it's much more expensive in the U.S., so your insurers might not support it, and there may be other health reasons your cancer team is steering you towards Lupron.
Erleada has been a game changer for me (stage 4 oligometastatic); together with ADT (Firmagon, then Orgovyx), it has stopped cancer progression in its tracks for 3 years so far and put me into what my oncologist called "full remission" (but with pharmaceutical assistance, of course).