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Stopping Nubeqa and Orgovyx after 6 months

Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Sep 5 1:04pm | Replies (20)

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With my stage 4 cancer (one spinal metastasis, treated with debulking surgery and SBRT), the expectation is that I'll be on ADT + ARSI forever, or at least until there's a major medical breakthrough. As @jeffmarc wrote, once the cancer has left the prostate there's no such thing as a cure, only long-term disease management, unfortunately.

Next month I will have been on ADT + ARSI for four years. The side-effects became easier over time for me, but as I type this, I am sitting in front of a fan in the middle of a major hot flush after overexertion (they've gotten much rarer, but they can still happen). Still, the amazing thing is that I'm not only alive after four years but have no evidence of disease progression, something that would have been less likely 10 years ago with a stage 4 prostate cancer diagnosis.

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I’ve mentioned multiple times that I walk on the track across the street twice every day. I walk at least a mile each time and I go as fast as I can somewhere between a jog and a run. Every time, when I come home, I sweat profusely. My hair gets all wet. I have to have a fan blowing on me twice a day just for that. And where I live, the temperature almost never gets even to 70.

After having been able to run for the last three or four months, my stamina has reached a point where I can jog/run on the track the whole time And I don’t get winded. I sure get sweaty though.

I think this is just one of the things many of us have to face with prostate cancer.