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time to decide and I'm stuck....

Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Feb 12 10:08am | Replies (69)

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@jesse65 Before we started my planned treatments, a 2nd opinion increased my Gleason to 7(4+3). Not knowing which was right - the 3+4 or the 4+3 (since they were both educated, experienced opinions) - I chose to be treated using the higher Gleason score. So we simply added 6 months (two 3-month injections) of Eligard to the treatment regimen.

Having been told that resistance-training was key to minimizing the side-effects of ADT, with weightlifting and cardio, my experience with ADT was fairly easy.

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@brianjarvis My Gleason is 4+3, like yours. I just had an ArteraAI test, recently approved by NCCN, and it indicated that ADT would NOT improve my chances of a successful outcome in any significant way. In other words, it would be a waste of time, resources, and hot flashes to add ADT therapy. I would have forgone radiation just to avoid ADT, but now that is not a concern. Almost makes my decision harder...now I'm truly between RP and RT.