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My Gleason score is 7 - 3+4. How long can I live without treatment?
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Can I ask why no radiation? I just had 25 rounds at Sloan and it was nothing. The worst ( if I can even call it that!) part is figuring out the bladder and bowel prep. Side effects minimal.
Sure, maybe years out they will develop, but I might not have gotten those years without the treatment.
Being on ADT for the rest of your life - which rising PSA indicates- can possibly be even more hazardous to your health.
Not criticizing or judging your personal decisions. Mine are different, that’s all. You’ve really been quite fortunate to go 20 yrs without treatment and no one can deny that the gamble you took really paid off.
Best of luck on whatever you decide!
Phil
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The "just had" is not comforting: it's the sometime after just had that I am concerned about and what prevents my doing it. BTW: that "rise", for now at least, is only to 0.08 (from < 0.05, but psa's from two different labs, and the newer one is not known to me as wholly reliable) while off of ADT for 9(?) months. And, it seems to me, I don't likely have more than five acceptably good more years left anyway, and if going back on ADT keeps things in check for those years... 😉
I've provided this link in response to a post elsewhere. It was published after I had made my decisions, so it *maybe* has confirmed my decisions rather than having influenced them:
https://www.urotoday.com/video-lectures/localized-prostate-cancer/video/4525-overtreatment-of-prostate-cancer-persists-in-men-with-limited-life-expectancy-timothy-daskivich.html