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Treating de-novo metastatic prostate cancer

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

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I think it's wonderful that it's treatable! It goes to show that prostate cancer is not a certain death sentence for someone. Considering 1 in 8 will get PC, it's encouraging to know that even when we think someone is "worst case scenario" that they are not destined for doom.

It wasn't that long ago where a diagnosis of prostate cancer equated to death, and that was still in my head when I was diagnosed. I've now learned, in no uncertain terms, that this is not even close to the truth with today's medicine.

People often complain that, after all the money and research, that there is no cure - but that article along with so many positive results shows that science is well on its way to that. One day, perhaps, there will be a pill that just erases cancer from the body. Not in my lifetime, likely, but one day.

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"One day, perhaps, there will be a pill that just erases cancer from the body. Not in my lifetime, likely, but one day."

Yes, I'm not expecting to see a full cure in time either, but if advanced prostate cancer becomes a manageable chronic disease in my lifetime, like diabetes and HIV have become, that would be good enough.