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Is there ever a cure for stage 4?

Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Aug 6 7:30am | Replies (22)

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Isn't Pruvicto a potential last ditch cure option to track down and irradiate distant PC cells anywhere in the body? That was my understanding from the latest online info about this radiopharmaceutical treatment option?

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I think you mean Pluvicto, a radioligand that uses a radioactive isotope (Lutetium 177) which attaches to cancer cells which express PSMA anywhere in the body and damages them. But Pluvicto ONLY targets PSMA-positive cancer cells--it is not effective against cancer cells which do not express PSMA. Also, Pluvicto was not described to us as a "cure option" by the team at Mayo. It is generally accepted that Stage 4/metastatic prostate cancer cannot be cured, only controlled and sent into remission, though sometimes for many years.