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Treatment Dogma - Aggressive is not the same as intelligent
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Apr 18 3:55pm | Replies (20)Comment receiving replies
I hope 2nd guessing after treatment doesn’t live in my mind. My hub’s case is not typical (lung only Mets with low PSA 0.36, low mtb, low ctDNA with Gleason 7=4+3). About to slide down into very aggressive combined treatment recommendations to go for the kill of the parasite, not the host! A wee bit scared it’s too much but we will never really know about any path, right? I just don’t want to look back and think we shouldn’t have….. argh. No matter how smart we can get about it, there is the unknown in each decision. If we choose a less aggressive route and that fails, then we wonder what if we had?…..
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Unfortunately, you can never know if your decision was the ‘right one’. My first RO told me there IS NO right one - ever!
And it’s impossible NOT to second guess everything you do. As Kevin points out, these should be shared decisions between you and your doctors. Their job is to explain the condition, their ideas for how to treat that condition and finally, to explain in terms you can understand, the whys and hows.
After that, you make your best decision ( a guess really) and go with it. If you do this stepwise and logically you’ll have no regrets.
Phil