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What if this prevents cancer from becoming resistant?
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Jul 10 10:56am | Replies (78)Comment receiving replies
@jeffmarc Jeff so they decided not to give you ADT at the time of recurrence. Did they know where the recurrence was? Was that the standard of care at the time, or something you requested? Obviously, you are doing well, but I may be facing slavage and wondered whether if they can't identify the PSA source, one should just wait post radiation and watch PSA or do ADT with radiation?
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They did give me a 6 Month Lupron shot two months before I had the radiation. Just a one time thing didn’t have it again for five years.
They did the radiation because my PSA hit .2 3.5 years after The prostatectomy. I did meet with the radiation oncologist before they did it, and they explained the reason why they wanted to do it. That was 2014 so the best they could do was a CT scan to see if anything was found. Like most people who have PSMA PET scans under this condition, Nothing is found so savage radiation was done.
Latest trials have shown that the ADT is more effective if given at the time of radiation or after it, rather than two months before. Doctors aren’t really paying attention to this yet.