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Optimal Duration of Hormone Therapy

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You could take that risk of dying from something else to mean that ADT for a long period of time stops the prostate cancer so that somebody can get old and die from something else.

That seems to be what’s happening for me, Eight years on ADT, I get monthly blood tests and they are just fine. I’ve had surgery twice where they’ve had to put me under after 74 and I haven’t kicked the bucket yet. I check my blood pressure almost every day and it’s just fine, Maybe a little lower than normal.

I’m 78 and I’ve been undetectable for 28 months after four reoccurrences in the last 16 years. I can probably out run and out exercise most 78-year-olds even though I’ve been on ADT for so long. I can run a mile without stopping and without any heart issues and Not even breathing hard.

I guess time will tell, but it’s more likely the drugs will fail than I will die from them.

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Hi @jeffmarc, unfortunately it doesn’t cover metastatic cancer. Only PC confined to the prostate and discusses 3 risk factors (palpable DRE, PSA > 10, and invasive vessicles). Unfortunately, my friend, it also says that continuing beyond the suggested time frame is not just living long enough to die from something else, but increased mortality from use.
As always, my hope is for you to be well and live a long life. I’m 74 also.

@jeffmarc what’s your height and weight old timer. ? I m curious. You remember me I m sure. Still < .01 over 2 years with mushrooms as my med.