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Testosterone Replacement Therapy after RALP
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Sep 29 4:57am | Replies (25)Comment receiving replies
This may be true, but i no longer have a prostate, my path report showed clean margins after surgery with nothing being found outside of the prostate itself, and my PSA is undetectable. Not to mention the dying question of if testosterone is a prostate cancer fertilizer, why dont more young people, who have significantly higher testosterone levels, develop prostate cancer?...
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If testosterone is in your system it feeds the cancer, which is in your bloodstream, and possibly in micro metastases in your body. It is true that some people can be completely cured.
Not everyone gets prostate cancer, just 12.5% of people. Most people have no inclination for prostate cancer so the testosterone level is irrelevant.
Adrenal glands also produce testosterone, and if you still have testes they continue to produce it, unless on ADT. Even on ADT some testosterone is still produced, Zytiga pretty much stops that.
I had my prostate removed and 3.5 years later my PSA started rising again. Lots of other people have it come back sooner or later than that.
You can never feel completely safe to take testosterone, that’s why you should get occasional PSA tests to make sure it’s not coming back.
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Every situation is similar, however, often different. I had my prostate removed. Unfortunately, my cancer had spread into a lymph node. One out of eight samples indicated it had spread. It wasn’t what I expected! I’m glad to hear your cancer hadn’t spread into the margins. Have a great day.