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Cribriform cells and radiation therapy
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Dec 23, 2024 | Replies (6)Comment receiving replies
While that will work quite well to try and completely eliminate the cancer, there is no way to know how well it works. Everybody is different than there is no way to definitely promise you that it will eliminate your cancer. Same with surgery.
The company that makes the PSE test says that after treatment, they can tell whether there’s still cancer in your body. It’s not FDA approved for this, but you could at least try it out.
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I was interested whether or not the PSE test could help inform my decision to remain on ADT - so I asked the company and here was their response
Thank you very much for your interest in the EpiSwitch(r) Prostate Screening (PSE) test. PSE was developed and validated as a prostate cancer detection test - not, as a residual or recurrent disease test.
However, i suspect that for legal reasons they may have no choice to respond otherwise. I emailed my MO and posed the same question. I’ll see what he has to say.
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Thank you, again. I am assuming that since this tumor grew within a naturally low testosterone environment, the aggressive nature of this tumor was probably as a result to seek out testosterone alternatives. If it naturally is already used to a testosterone-challenged environment, surely there must be other components contributing to its growth. Not sure (but hope) that ADT might take care of some of the growth factors. I am banking on brachytherapy and EBRT to do the rest. Que sera, sera.