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Blood work Ok Reducing prednisone to get me off it. Lungs still have fluid Meeting resporoligist . Once tis is over may start me om Zytiga or Apalutimide

Anyone know if it works after having Xtandi and radium 22s It says it has goo OS survival ratings on Cancer Canada

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Like all the -lutamides, Apalutamide can be very effective — so much so that they had to unblind the TITAN trial because it was unethical to keep half the participants on placebo. That study didn't reach median overall in its 4½ years, even (IIRC) counting those who had started on placebo and then switched and those who had become castrate-resistant during the trial, because the participants just kept living so darned long. 🙂

Erleada (Apalutamide's brand name) is in the Ontario formulary, so your ODB should cover it without having to mess with the extra paperwork around joining a patient-access programme or getting authorisation from private insurance (which is important, since it would cost nearly CA $5,000/month otherwise).