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What?!? "Curing" oligometastatic prostate cancer???
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Mar 26 3:57pm | Replies (12)Comment receiving replies
North, don’t be too surprised…I met a man at Sloan having salvage radiation for a rising PSA just months after surgery from his local urologist.
After his second “bump” he finally was able to speak to the surgeon who said,
“What are you worried about? I removed your prostate - you’re cured!” Very, very scary….
Phil
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Yes, that man should definitely get a second opinion. 😕
It might turn that the oncologists who believe oligometastatic prostate cancer can be "cured" are right — I very much hope they are, and there's increasing evidence to support them — but it still feels a bit early to use the "c" word with patients for any type of stage 4 cancer. My hopes rise only as high as long-term functional remission (for now).