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New diagnosis at 50

Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Dec 7, 2025 | Replies (40)

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An interesting change of medical advice. Rick Davis who runs ancan.org Always told people they should eventually treat the primary. He told people over and over that even though their case seemed to be extreme that they needed to get the primary treated at some point.

Then about two months ago, some new medical advice came out about this issue. Apparently, with people who had very advanced prostate cancer cases there was no benefit to treating the prostate. It had no effect on their survival. It was strange to see him change his tune, But he followed that advice and told people that he believed they should treat it unless the case was quite advanced.

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@jeffmarc Thanks for sharing that.

It sounds like Rick Davis has decided to align himself with the STAMPEDE finding published in 2018, showing that there was a significant overall-survival improvement from radiating the primary/prostate for cancer with "low metastatic burden" (aka oligometastatic), but not with "high metastatic burden".