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Is this normal on ADT? Body hair gone
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Sep 23 2:56pm | Replies (76)Comment receiving replies
Well, this was probably 3 years ago in Great Britain so never heard the follow up or if the treatment held the cancer at bay for good.
But the way they described was much more exaggerated than US BAT. They gave the patient a ‘massive’ dose of T - whatever that means - and all his metastases disappeared over time. Duke University is looking into this as we speak. There is a paradoxical reaction to T by aggressive cancer: it DIES from it, whereas less aggressive garden variety types thrive on it. It’s a paradox all right!
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Just found a study that discusses whether BAT does what you were talking about. In one study of 12 patients only one of them had tumor regression. Definitely something they could look into and maybe make it more widely available some day. They keep coming out with new treatments.
Here is a short synopsis of what they found
Given that tumor regression seems to occur in a minority of patients treated with BAT, identifying biomarkers that predict sensitivity could enhance the utility of this therapy.
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My PSA went up to 67 and my cancer metastasised to my spine very aggressively when my testosterone was higher; in the three years since I started on ADT my testosterone has been extremely low, my PSA is undetectable, and there's been no new cancer progression.