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Salvage radiation decision: with or without hormone therapy?
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Feb 22 5:36pm | Replies (66)Comment receiving replies
Thanks. Very helpful. MSKCC uses a tolerance limit of < .05 to be considered undetectable so yours would have been considered undectable. Even if mine is ' undetectable' next week , I won't really know if was the radiation that did that or thr Orgovyx, ( since ADT does not directly kill cancer cells). The reason I say this because a guy I ran into at the radiation unit said his PSA was undetectable after a Lupron shot , but before he even started radiation.
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That MSK indicator really bummed me out when I saw my first result. I thought “All this radiation and ADT to go from .18 to .05??!”
But my RO assured me that this number was their lowest possible score…felt MUCH better after that!
My PSA was undetectable after 1 month on Orgovyx so that really does the trick numbers-wise. It’s the radiation/ADT combo that gives the sustained killing effects months down the road.
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You are Right, The Orgovyx did it, In the library, when the lights were out. Now Back to reality. Your testosterone and PSA have no chance if you’re taking Orgovyx, They are going down. You will not know the results of radiation until you stop.
As @jaacm1 says, it took 6 months to really Drop to a low. In some cases, it can take up to three years for people’s PSA to drop to the bottom after radiation has finally killed off all the cells.
Since you are on Orgovyx You don’t have to worry about the possible slow drop of your PSA as radiation kills off the cancer cells since yours will drop quickly.