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Is your Oncologist an positive cheerleader or more negative?
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Jun 12 5:07pm | Replies (10)Comment receiving replies
I just want to throw this out there. Castrate Resistance is not inevitable. Dr. Mark Scholtz "Prostate Cancer Research Institute" states that not every man becomes castrate resistance. There are men who remain hormone sensitive on ADT alone. So, I do not and will not subscribe to the belief that = "it is not a matter of if, it is a matter of when I become castrate resistant." I strongly believe that I have beat this cancer. And while my doctors may never agree that my deep deep remission is cure - and while I trust my doctor and respect her - I do believe I continue to demonstrate cure. After having a tremendous response that showed up on my recent bone scan, my oncologist wants to do a PSMA Pet scan. I believe it will confirm - the cancer is dead and that there are no other issues that light up. I am a Christian believer and I believe I am moving into cure everyday. What I need to do better is push through and exercise.
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Thanks for that!
There is a small percentile of people who remain castrate sensitive with metastatic prostate cancer, and it seems to have become larger with new treatment strategies like the early introduction of ARSIs (instead of waiting for ADT to fail), radiation of individual metastases for oligometastatic PCa, early chemotherapy for polymetastatic PCa, etc.
Obviously, the longer you go with undetectable PSA, the more likely you're in that percentile, but there's no way to know for sure. I figure if I'm going to have fantasies about a future I can't predict, they might as well be positive ones rather than negative.