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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
The article sounds promising, but what concerns me is there inability to say that it works for most people. They have to select patients who are most likely to respond, sure would be nice to know what that criteria is.
From the article:
Our study describes how BAT and like approaches work and could help physicians select patients who are most likely to respond to this intervention,” McDonnell said.
When I was offered BAT the only thing they could say was that it may allow Zytiga to work again once it has become ineffective.
Looks like there’s a lot more to do to get this to be a regular treatment. Fortunately new techniques are coming out steadily, maybe this will get fixed before PC has become overwhelming for those with it now.
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Just so — I agree. Words like "promising," "could," etc point to very early research. Most research like that doesn't work out, as you hint, so right now this isn't relevant to our treatment plans.
But I do appreciate @heavyphil sharing this, because the sheer number of "promising" results from different early studies helps keep me optimistic that at least a small number of them will make it through (even if we don't know yet which ones), and that we'll have yet more treatment options in 5 years or so. That makes it even more worthwhile putting up with the side-effects to keep us going until then.