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What is treatment for Gleason Score 8 at 80 years old in good health?
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@cadaddy
What was your Gleason score? That is a major factor in ADT decisions.
Did you have a decipher test? That will tell you how likely you are to have a reoccurrence. A lot of doctors go by that test to decide how long ADT should be given.
I’m 78 and I’ve been on ADT for eight years, you do get used to it?. I am very Fit, Run a mile on the track twice a day and go to the gym three days a week. Being active actually offsets the fatigue.
The hot flashes are something I’ve lived with for a long time. There are a number of solutions for them. I had Depo-provera Shots every three months and that’s pretty much stopped it. A more recent treatment is oxybutynin, Which seems to work quite well for a number of people I’ve heard from.
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@jeffmarc I had one core of 9, one of 8, two of 3, all the rest benign. What I'm trying to understand is the relative risk of either continuing for 6 more months or not. I was told that the "standard" treatment is a year of ADT. I assume that in the best case the SBRT and the ADT eliminated all the identified pc. If some cells remain hidden somewhere and they show up 6 months from now in a new test, wouldn't re-starting the ADT be sufficient to address the recurrence?