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Is this normal on ADT? Body hair gone

Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Sep 23 2:56pm | Replies (76)
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@aldenrobert

Thanks for your comment. My Oncologist doesn't believe that going off and back on ADT will affect how the drugs work or that it will make you resistant to the drugs. He quoted me some stats from a study regarding this. When I see him next month I will bring it up again.
I am glad to hear that you are able to tolerate you treatments as well as you have and I am also glad that they are working for you. This is only my second go around with ADT and my PSA went up very fast once I stopped taking the drugs the fist go around. So I will wait and see how this time goes.
Thanks again for sharing your story.

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northoftheborder | @northoftheborder | Sep 20 11:19am

I think I know the study you mean (I heard about it on the radio). It concluded that ADT vacations didn't overall survival (and might even help) with earlier stages of prostate cancer, but that they did have a slightly negative impact on overall survival for advanced PCa (i.e. stages 3 and 4), so they weren't sure about recommending them there yet.

I'd be very interested in hearing about any additional studies.

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