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Did you have any surgery or radiation? Or just the ADT?

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No surgery, but starting radiation in about a week. My radiation oncologist thinks he can destroy the remaining cancer and if my PSA stays undetectable for 6 months after, then maybe I can be taken off ADT. Of course this is all a “maybe” at this point because I have the BRCA2 gene mutation and my cancer is very high risk. I am just taking this one day at a time and staying active and try to enjoy every day. I am 72 years old, my older brother had the same exact disease back in 2006, he was 62 then, by the time he had symptoms and went to the doctor it was too late for effective treatments and he passed in about 6 months. I believe the treatments today are much better and life expectancy with the disease has increased.