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A Quandry between two medical recommendations for mPCa to lung only
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Was just reading about someone else who had two lung lesions, went on ADT and Zytiga And after a year, the lung lesions could no longer be seen.
They decided to hold off the chemo until later.
Chemo with carboplatin might just knock out everything right away. Carboplatin is not normally used unless it’s an advanced case, but I have not heard of everything. You don’t mention where you are going for treatment now, Maybe there is information that says it is beneficial in your case.
It appears you’re saying you are going to a medical oncologist. To get an oncologist that specializes in prostate cancer, you want a Genito urinary oncologist. If you can’t find one, then you should go to a center of excellence that has them. You want more than one medical oncologist making your decisions. You can ask things here and we can help you get more informed so you can be proactive about your treatment when you talk to doctors.
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Thanks for your reply. Our local MO is at a fairly large system and he is a genitourinary oncologist who was at Columbia before coming to Michigan. We saw a noted urologist at a center of excellence where we had a PET and lung biopsy. We could seek yet another 2nd opinion, but have also been told that too many consults creates inaction. These nodules were first discovered Jan 30 and due to medical team being so crazy busy, a doc vacations, and getting to the center of excellence, its now 3 mos later. What do you do when your two experts don’t agree? I have a lot of questions and the appts are 20-30 minutes if they are on time. We feel ready to start treatment, but uncertain which approach. And of course, it all needs pre authorization…. Ugh - getting frustrated and we have yet to start. I suppose we could see about a video consult with UMich but it sure they do that. Rambling here, but thank you, @jeffmarc.