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Mentioned Prostate Cancer on Monday Night Football
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Dec 6, 2025 | Replies (23)Comment receiving replies
Yes...I saw/heard that last night. I was immediately confused and questioned the use of the term "chemotherapy." That guy must have extremely advanced and metastatic prostate cancer. In fact, literally no one on the Mayo blog under any discussion has mentioned they are receiving chemotherapy in the 8 months that I have been reading and contributing. Maybe they misused the term chemotherapy...maybe they meant Lupron, ADT, Brachytherapy, or even radiation, etc. But "chemotherapy" is, by definition, I.V.-infused heavy-duty, anti-cancer drug therapy with all of the usual side effects of hair loss, vomiting, and general "I want to die" misery. What does anyone out here in cyberland know about "chemotherapy" for prostate cancer?
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Go to the top section of Mayo Clinic’s prostate cancer, forum, and search for chemotherapy in the search bar.
We will find a lot of people talking about it.
I attend nine online prostate cancer meetings every month. Chemotherapy is discussed multiple times every month. Just last night at the ancan.org Meeting it was discussed for at least half an hour by a couple of different people. Some of you were having it some of them were talking about their experience, having had it. A lot of discussion was about using a cold cap, keeping hands and feet in ice or cold gloves while being treated to prevent problems with those appendages.
Unfortunately, too many people end up having to need chemo.
@rlpostrp Yeah, I thought the same thing; maybe tough guys in the NFL shy away from words like hormones because of their feminizing traits…
Or maybe viewers would think he was being given steroids or PED’s if they mentioned the H word…hope he’s NOT getting chemo, in any case.
Phil
@rlpostrp Many men receive chemo for metastatic prostate cancer. My husband is one of them; it was done after the spinal metastases became too numerous to hit with spot radiation. That was in 2016 and he is still here. You can see many other posts on this Mayo forum by men undergoing chemo for prostate cancer. You might have just overlooked them.
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@rlpostrp Chemotherapy is a common treatment for advanced prostate cancer that is polymetastatic (many metastases) or castrate-resistant (PSA still rises despite hormone therapy). Many forum members here, including @jeffmarc , have had chemotherapy as part of their cancer treatment, and I'm sure they'd be happy to share their experiences.
Chemotherapy is also part of the new "triplet therapy" pioneered partly at Mayo (along with several other research facilities). The old approach was to try one treatment at a time, and move onto the next when it failed. These days, the cutting edge for polymetastatic prostate cancer is to hit it with everything you've got right up front: ADT (like Orgovyx), an ARSI (like one of the -lutamides), *and* chemotherapy (Docetaxel), hoping for a knock-out punch. Some members have had chemo multiple times to keep their prostate cancer under control, and are doing great.