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Stop zytiga/prednisone at 24 months required?

Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Sep 18 10:20am | Replies (9)
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My plan was to stay with the zytiga/pred/eligard as long as possible since it is working thru 18 months and I am dealing with the side effects. Can I infer your husbands psa began rising? Doesn't this indicate castration resistance, making the follow-up course of action more complicated?

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lag | @lag | Sep 17 4:48pm

Yes, the PSA upward trend is how we knew the cancer had recurred, which was then confirmed by bone mets on scans. It is unclear at what point he became castrate resistant. The course of treatment always gets more complicated with each recurrence, it seems, but so far the cancer still recedes a bit with each treatment series.

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