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someone related to me 79 years old fit and healthy, history of shingles. stable blood pressure developed urine retention admitted to A and E revealed PSA 5.84, Prostate volume 157 Gleason 5+5= 10 with features favouring a small cell neuroendocrine carcinoma, PET scan left pelvic sidewall nodal lesion seen but no extra pelvic or any metastatic disease elsewhere. started hormonal treatment for month followed by monthly injection, following that catheter got blocked and lots of lumps came out and rectal pain. the question what is the best treatment? is chemo therapy safe or radiation would be better? what is the life span? thanks
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Unfortunately, there are a few options for neuroendocrine cancer. There are some chemo with platinum options, but they don’t give long-term results and the side effects are pretty rough. There are a couple of studies working on neuroendocrine cancer. UC Davis has a study that is having people join it right now, but you need to live near Sacramento, California, or be able to get there. There’s a second study run with a doctor from UC San Francisco, but it is only accepting women with neuroendocrine breast cancer right now.
Problem with neuroendocrine cancer, people don’t have a long life span. There are just no treatments equal to what they have for regular prostate cancer.