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How fast does Orgovyx work to reduce PSA?
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@mcnite
You must have a pretty serious case. They don’t do radiation after a prostatectomy unless there is a very serious case.
Were any of these things found in the biopsy intraductal, cribriform, Seminal vesicle invasion, EPE or ECE. (Extraprostatic extensions extra capsular extensions). They can make the cancer much more aggressive and require radiation after the prostatectomy.
What was your Gleason score? Have you had a decipher test? What does the PSMA PET scan show? It sounds like there wasn’t spread, but that you had one of those aggressive conditions.
If you can answer these questions, maybe we can give you some more possibilities about your case.
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@jeffmarc they said Gleason 2. The urologist surgeon did 15 biopsies, 11 positive. He was “confident” and said they also removed a lymph node (or maybe 2 I’m not sure). We did the PSA 3 months later and showed 1.7, two weeks after that 1.9 so he ordered a pet scan. It lit up in the prostate area so he referred
Me to the radiation oncologist and the medial
Oncologist. I don’t recall
any of your second paragraph wording but I was a little
Overwhelmed at the time too. The surgeon said it could
have gotten outside the prostate and one of the docs made reference to stage 3 which I don’t like the sound of. However, whether it’s just to keep me upbeat or what - the medical and radiation docs were both talking about not planning for the short term but planning for 10 -
20 years out which was a good sign. They did say I would be on Orgovyx 3 years and another pill after radiation. Even with a Medicare supplement it’s about $700 every three months so there are a lot of ups and downs besides the diagnosis.