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Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Dec 10, 2025 | Replies (27)Comment receiving replies
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@lacraig1 Christmas Eve, I complete one year of ADT (Orgovyx) and had 44 radiation treatments last spring. No surgery. Three lesions in prostate, two questionable spots in adjacent lymph nodes, so the recommendation is for 18-24 total months on ADT. My wife and I have begun to accept that, even at my age (74), prostate cancer is a disease to be managed rather than to expect a complete cure. We live in Texas, the land of Yellow Jacket wasps. When I spray a nest, one or two are too quick for me and I'll find a new nest being built a couple of days later. Prostate cancer seems to act like this: if even one cancer cell escapes treatment, it can multiply at any point later. The good news is that it's almost always treatable, regardless recurrence, as @jeffm has commented about his experience. A fellow support group member commented last night that his first diagnosis and treatment were in 2009, and he's currently on treatment. And new treatments are continually being developed.
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