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The decision I have to make is tearing me up
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Feb 22 3:21pm | Replies (37)Comment receiving replies
@vancouverislandhiker
Your doctor was definitely giving you some good information.
If you could last five years, they will come out with some new drugs that will help people that have Castrate resistant prostate cancer continue to keep their PSA down even after the current drugs fail. In 10 years they might have a cure, Just reading today about reversing colon cancer by turning the cells back from cancerous to normal. They think it will work with other cancers.
When I attended the mutation patients online meeting a few weeks ago, one of the doctors from UCSF who has BRCA2 told me that I’m not gonna die from prostate cancer. After all these years and my being on a multitude of drugs, She was convinced that new discoveries were going to change things. Definitely a positive point of view.
So let’s just wait for it, Some new discoveries are coming.
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@jeffmarc Amazing Jeff ! Yes this is what I have been told too, 4-5 years there are so many new therapies and drugs coming . My Doc told me the same thing "your not going to die from this , 20-25 years ago , I could not say that...thats when your dad was going though this. Now and in the future it's a different story . Likely in 4-5 years this disease will be managed for life " . I was so very happy to hear this. He went on about details around DNA and changing it somehow to prevent any progress of PC . Really positive stuff ! have a great night Jeff ! James