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Prostate cancer treatment delay.

Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Oct 29 3:24pm | Replies (23)
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give a look and listen to this talk by Dr. Mack Roach. Toward the end of his talk he addresses the effect of delay in treatment of 6-9 months. He says there is no impact. https://pcri.org/2024-conference#2024ourspeakers

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jeffmarc | @jeffmarc | Oct 28 10:16am

Unfortunately, this link takes me to a top level PCRI page. Can’t seem to find the speech with this link.

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trusam1 | @trusam1 | Oct 29 12:20pm

FWIW, that talk starts at 3 hour 19 minute mark. I skimmed it, but could not find the comments on effect of delay in treatment.

I myself purposely delayed my treatment by 5-6 months because I wanted to complete something which I'd been heavily involved in for 20 years. I've wondered what effect that delay will have long-term. Logically, delaying 6 months must have *some* effect. One cannot continually delay and expect the cancer to not progress. Dr. roach must have been talking about significant statistical differences in a population. But for each of us, we care not about statistics in a population, but "what's going to happen to ME?" Seems like, the sooner, the better to me.

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