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Treating de-novo metastatic prostate cancer

Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Mar 21 6:23am | Replies (5)

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That's fair. Here's my summary.

The paper, surveying several major reent studies, notes that for prostate cancer that

1. has already metastasised when it's first discovered and

2. still responds to hormone therapy,

best practice seems to be to combine ADT and something like one of the -lutamides right from the start (doublet therapy)

If there are lots of metastases, it often makes sense to add chemotherapy to those (triplet therapy).

If there are only a tiny number of metastases, chemo doesn't show a benefit at this point, but it's helpful to radiate the individual metastases.

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Replies to "That's fair. Here's my summary. The paper, surveying several major reent studies, notes that for prostate..."

Just wanted to say, getting lost in the terminology is on me, not your post. I often need to search for the meaning of terms used. I read the meaning and then next time I see them, of course I'm back to searching again. For now, they just don't seem to stick with me. I thank everyone whom is always answering all the questions some of us are posting. Best to all.