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Completed 6 Pluvitco Injections. Oncologist moves me to Lynparza.
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@colleenyoung I really can't give you much of any idea what Lynparza is doing to/for me because I started on it before the final Pluvicto injection. The side effects that are discussed in the drug information page are so similar to so much of what I've been on, I suspect I'll figure this out only if there is some sort of outlier effect. The folks at Lynn Cancer Institute have had a variety of people checking in with me on a regular basis. By inference, there may be issues that they have learned to watch for but have not filled me in on. I think I'll spend some time talking with the oncologist about this the next time I see him.
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I know one guy who had Pluvicto And when it wasn’t successful, went to Austria and had actinium. That didn’t work for him either so they tried more Pluvicto And also included a PARP inhibitor lynparza. That didn’t work for him either and he only survive for about another four or five months.
Peter who leads the bimonthly reluctant brotherhood advanced prostate cancer meetings has BRCA2 and had Pluvicto a couple of months ago. After two treatments, his PSA dropped a .04 and they decided that he could hold the other four treatments off until he needed it again. The thing is Pluvicto is supposed to work really well if you have BRCA2. His results sort of confirmed it for him. He’s had prostate cancer for 14 years and has had a lot of metastasis. He also hasn’t had to try a PARP inhibitor yet because other drugs have worked.
Lynparza is the name for the standard Olaparib PARP inhibitor. I actually took it for five days once but had terrible nightmares and switched to Nubeqa.
Some peoples hereditary DNA does not have BRCA2, But when they get a somatic DNA test that tests their cancerous tissue or their blood, it can show BRCA and in that case Olaparib/Lynparza can work.
They do try to use Lynparza If the genetic problems of ATM, PALB2, and/or CHEK2 are found. It may help in those cases. Maybe you have one of those genetic issues in your hereditary or somatic testing.