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Dr. Bert Vorstman skeptical of any PC treatment. What do you think?
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@copyman
The problem is people do die of prostate cancer.
My father died of it in 2008 at 88 years old. The last few weeks were pretty terrible, He was on morphine and couldn’t communicate he was in so much pain.
I remember when he told me Lupron stopped working and there wasn’t anything else for treatment.
He started off with radiation as his initial treatment.
Some people do go into long-term remission. I don’t know about cure.
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@jeffmarc Thanks for a very honest and realistic portrayal of what dying of prostate cancer can be. I was treated for a Gleason 4+3 with EBRT and 18 months of ADT. The ADT was stopped at 18 months because the urologist taking over my case noticed how brutal the side effects were. On the plus side, my cancer is in remission and I am slowly going back to normal as I knew. Certainly not perfect, but so far, so good. By the way, an article that Dr. Bert Vorstman wrote on Medium (https://bvorstman.medium.com/why-some-cures-are-worse-than-the-disease-61a99ba7152c) is dedicated to ANTHONY HORAN, MD, who died of prostate cancer, of all causes.