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For men who had SRT - what was PSA on day of 1st session?
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@jeffmarci I am on Lupron. Just had a 4 month shot 2 days ago. This follows a loading dose of degarelix on 10/13
I’ve been on daralutimide since October 13. Onco wanted me to hold off until PSMA PET was done.
I received a PSA reading of 28 in mid April 2022. Didn’t get any sort of treatment until late July. The industry talks frequently about how slow moving the cancer is but the falloff in RT efficacy when PSA goes > 0.20 suggests that delays in treatment kill
I don’t understand why my urologist didn’t shoot me full of degarelix tge day my PSA of 28 was known. I don’t understand why current onco didn’t do the same in July of this year
I’ve trusted doctors implicitly especially bc I’m being treated at a world famous cancer hospital with big Ivy League brains & egos all over the place
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Really strange they want you to hold off on Darolutamide, Which doesn’t reduce your testosterone so it doesn’t have any effect on the PSMA pet test.
The thing is, Getting the degarelix Shot stopped your cancer from growing and spreading. The Lupron shot does the same thing but reduces your testosterone even more only because you got it second. Some people get one degarelix Shot after another and it also keeps your testosterone way down.
Between the two drugs, your cancer has actually been stopped, Your PSA probably came down significantly as well. That makes it so that your radiation can be delayed a little without any negative effects.
Over at ancan.org Weekly advanced prostate cancer meetings, one of the doctors that attends almost every meeting talked about the fact that his urologist put off his rising PSA for a long time, resulting in him having a much more aggressive prostate cancer. I’ve heard the same thing from many other people. Some Doctors!!!! That sounds like your doctor that didn’t give you anything for 3 months in 2022. People have to be proactive, but they don’t know they need to do that when they are first diagnosed.