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is there an end to this train ride? and how will they know?
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I must be a little slow on the uptake but, “how do you get prostate cancer after your prostate has been removed?” And Jeff I know you’re very stressed out and also confused cause I certainly am.I just hope that you get well and get to feeling better cause you let them remove the damn thing and it’s still messing with you? Talk about unfair!! Best wishes and Godspeed!
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@chebo1954 If the prostate cancer flares up after a prostatectomy, it's because some of the cancer had already escaped your prostate and moved to other parts of your body (but hadn't grown big enough tumours to detect yet). Those cells can lay dormant for months, years, or even decades and then sudden start multiplying. 😢
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Not confused at all I’ve been Attend attending nine advanced prostate cancer meetings every week, for years, and hear about almost everything going on. I also attend a lot of webinars.
A lot of people‘s prostate cancer has gotten out of the prostate, Or they have aggressive features to their cancer or high Gleason scores. All of these things can lead to reoccurrence. Some of the advanced issues that come up can cause the cancer to get in your bloodstream, which then results in it coming back at a later time.
At a PCRI conference Kwon and Moyad agree to this. Seeds for metastasis were already there when surgery was done, waiting to grow.
So there are a number of ways that prostate cancer can come back. In my case, I have BRCA2, which causes my DNA to make errors, Those errors can cause the prostate cancer that’s come back repeatedly for me.