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Testosterone recovery after ADT
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Oct 26 1:21pm | Replies (26)Comment receiving replies
This is helpful. I've seen so many conflicting things online about ADT. Some say it only improves the odds by 5%, while others say it greatly improves them. Radoncs also seem to be all over the place when it comes to ADT duration. Guys with the same diagnosis as me have gotten as few as four months of ADT and some have gotten two years. I get a sense that there's some element of educated guesswork to all of this.
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According to the NCCN, which sets the standards for prostate cancer treatment. If you have a Gleason seven you get six months of ADT, Gleason 8 gets 18 months of ADT, Gleason nine and 10 get 24 months of ADT.
That’s based on what works best for those levels of cancer, to stop or limit reoccurrence. It doesn’t always work because no two cases of prostate cancer are identical, and if it has spread past the prostate, treatment and reoccurrence varies a lot.