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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
@odie10
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.
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@jeffmarc Thank you. I'm getting mixed messages from my docs. One is saying "cured" after five years and one says it will eventually kill me because I have no other co-morbidities, probably 7-8 years out. It feels like mixed messaging...
Be well.
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@jeffmarc These 20- and 30-year numbers aren’t bad.
By comparison, in 1995 I had knee surgery; in 2018 I had a recurrence of that same knee problem and had the same knee surgery again. I consider those 23 years a successful surgery (despite having to repeat it). If I can get 23 more years out of that 2018 knee surgery, that’ll be another successful treatment.
Similarly, if I can get 20-30 years out of my 2021 prostate cancer (proton) radiation treatments, I’ll consider that a success.