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ADT REALLY SUCKS!!!!

Look into intermittent ADT instead of continuous. With any luck you will never have to go back on it. It takes time for the side effects to improve. Also, life expectancy is higher with intermittent ADT than continuous, but dying of cancer is more likely. ADT causes heart disease, diabetes, weight gain, and bone loss, not to mention ED, hot flashes, insomnia, emotional lability, depression and anxiety. 😥

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So far, the research doesn't show improved outcomes for intermittent ADT with advanced prostate cancer, the way it does with early-stage PCa: last I heard (a few months ago), overall survival actually declines (slightly) with "ADT holidays" for late-stage PCa in the studies they've done so far, but I'm hoping that will change as the research accumulates and they find the best way of doing it. Right now, I'm too nervous that if I stopped ADT, my castrate-sensitive PCa would return as castrate-resistant after a few months (or years), and I don't want to roll that die quite yet.