Well of course you want to stop it at some point - it’s not even good to stay on it for too long; but WHAT is the point at which you stop?
I’m only going from my own experience, Gleason 4+3 unfavorable and recurrence 5 yrs after surgery. I was prescribed 6 months of ADT - which was plenty, believe me…
But for a Gleason 9 (with cribriform?) which came back after 2.5 yrs, you are dealing with a more aggressive cancer. I’ll go one step even further. I would ask a medical oncologist if there is an additional drug I should be on to really wipe this out now.
I agree that the only way to know definitively is to go off ADT and see what happens, but what’s the next step if it starts going up? Chemo? Triplet Therapy?
Honestly, I am not happy thinking about this sh** coming back again for a third time.
Phil