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Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Dec 3 10:37am | Replies (59)

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The recent seminar I went to shows that intraductal is aggressive and usually means you have cribriform. Because of that doing something makes more sense.

I wish you had mentioned what your Gleason score is. And also a decipher score if you have one. The Gleason score tells you how aggressive it is. If it’s above seven then you are aggressive along with the intraductal aggressiveness is even a little higher. This disclosure about intraductal being so aggressive is sort of new news. I will be posting a link to the video of that meeting when it becomes available.

Yes, you could wait until your PSA hits .2 to do the salvage radiation. As they said the results are the same. With other issues, metastasis could appear while you’re waiting, but at .2 there won’t be a lot.

I’ve been on ADT for eight years. In my case, I don’t get the fatigue. I do get the hot flashes and brain fog and loss of muscle. Going to the gym three days a week now to try and rebuild my muscles. If you start weight training when you begin ADT, you may not lose too much muscle. I am 77 and not overweight, I keep a very tight lid on my weight. Some people gain weight with ADT, you don’t have to.

I would avoid ADT as long as you can. In my case, I had radiation3.5 years after surgery and was not put on ADT until my PSA started rising again 2 1/2 years later. They didn’t know I have BRCA2 15 years ago when I was diagnosed, just found out two years ago,. My PSA was 4+3 so not too aggressive, that didn’t stop PC from coming back four times.

Wish you luck.

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Hi,
Grade group 5, Gleason 4+5, 9, Invasive Prostatic Adenocarcinoma Acinar Adenocarcinoma
The doc says have to have ADT, the 6 month shot, in order to lay the groundwork for the radiation. He said salvage radiation is much more effective with the ADT

If results are the same I would wait.