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ADT, maybe not? Anyone opted out of ADT?
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I challenged my RO that my research suggested IMRT + HDR outcomes were really not much better with ADT. I asked if I could skip the ADT and just do the radiation protocols. He looked me in the eye and with all the sincerity in the world said "I am 2 years older than you...and if I were in your shoes I would do the ADT/Orgovyx for 6 months...it won't kill you".
So I agreed and he was right...I am five months post and feeling fine. Weight gain stopped, fatigue bouts few and far between and overall feeling is great
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I did not have hormone treatments. My original treatment plan included it but Decipher came back low riks and the hormone treatment plan was removed.
My Mayo R/O said the hormone treatments provide an additiona level of success between 10-20%. This is him talking not me. If my original treatment plan had to be follow I would NOT like to be on hormone treatment plan but for me the 10-20% help would purseade me to.
The hormone treatment per my Mayo R/O does not injure the cancer cells (they goal of radiation) nor removes it. It starves the cancer so the growth is curtailed and what every treatment you get is enhanced as the growth of your cancer has been curtailed.
I was finally diagnosed with low risk PC and had 30 rounds of proton radiation.
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@capatov Looks like I'll be on Orgovyx 18 months, and I hope I bounce back afterward. Oncologist first prescribed 24 months, but I'd be finishing after turning 75 and with less than likely full recovery. Glad you're doing well! I hope that with six months less of ADT I'll be at least six months sooner feeling better!