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Is anyone going with hormone therapy alone?
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Aug 19 8:10pm | Replies (25)Comment receiving replies
My husband did "just" ADT. the shot and the pills for a few months, now he's in the middle of chemo as well. I asked the doctor what the survival rate is with the two ADTs without chemo vs the triple therapy (two ADTs plus chemo) and again it's "JUST" statistics, but without the chemo it shaves off at least a year.
Of course they can't really say, but I wanted to know.
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When you say.. shaves off a year, do you mean of his life? How long has he been on this?. And what is his age?
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Actually, it’s not two ADT‘s Bea. It’s an ADT plus an ARSI (Zytiga or a lutamide).
I don’t think any doctor can even guess what the overall survival of a patient is going to be.
Last week I was in a Monthly UCSF online meeting. One guy was really worried about the fact that he was only given a couple of years. Two or three other guys in the group said they had been given short time life expectancies, but they were way beyond the estimates made by the doctors and consider them sort of a joke.
It really is annoying when I hear these life expectancy estimates, They are almost always wrong.