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Prostate cancer: Today is the day I discuss the results of the biopsy
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Jan 10 7:12am | Replies (23)Comment receiving replies
Stage 4, post-radiation on hip and ribs. PSA now zero. Radiation oncologist says he believes I'll live more than 5 years at which point I'll be considered cured. Question: if the tumors have been killed and PSA is unmeasurable, HOW does the cancer reestablish itself? Anyone? Thanks.
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@odie10 A couple of days ago, I was listening to this year+ old webinar (https://youtu.be/xZYMTRjKI9U)
It was mentioned that (following primary radiation) “…if a patient has not experienced biochemical recurrence by 5 years, the chance of developing distant metastasis after that (pulling all risk groups together) is only 3%….”
I stopped what I was doing (weightlifting at the gym) and scrolled back to replay and snapshot those words in the transcript. (See attached.)
@odie10 I meant to add that Stage 4 prostate cancer is considered incurable, yes?
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Prostate cancer can go a dormant. I know one guy with a Gleason nine that had it come back 30 years after his treatment. Another guy had to come back after 20 years. These type of reports aren’t unusual. I go to nine online advanced prostate cancer meetings every month and here many different types of cases.
Mine came back 3 1/2 years after my surgery.
There’s no way to see all of the micro metastasis in someone’s body. The PSMA PET scan can’t see metastasis that are 2 1/2 mm and some doctor say even 5 mm are hard to see.
Once you’ve had it spread to other parts of your body, it’s in your bloodstream. It’s hard to eliminate it from there, There really isn’t any treatment besides chemo or Pluvicto that could do it. Even after those treatments reoccurrences is very common.