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Prostate Cancer | Last Active: 21 hours ago | Replies (16)
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As you are living proof of, you can hope for 13+ years together given the state of the art treatments that are available to you. Negative comments seem to add to one’s fear of the future.
Warm wishes you and your husband in this season of Hope.
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Very true, and the field is changing so fast that this year's information will be out of date by the end of next year.
I fully expect that in a few years stage-4 prostate cancer will become a chronic disease that (in most cases) can be managed for the rest of your natural life, like HIV or Parkinson's. The Scientific American article I shared earlier in this thread suggests that we're on the verge of that already.
So any treatment that gives you an extra year or two longer might really be giving you an extra 20+, if it helps you survive to the next big advance.
Don't give up — keep on keeping on, folks!