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Replies to "@michaelcharles Thank you for sharing your experience. I am actually at .19, 5 months post-op, and..."
@animate
I have no explanation for the specific ADT Rx that I received. Again, I accepted the RO's design of my treatment protocol.
And honestly would have accepted an additional couple of months of ADT if he had recommended extending that course of tx.
I was only sharing my actual tx; in part to illustrate that different ROs & MOs have different lengths of ADT regimens.
In the 70's, I bought a number of pieces of old oak furniture; not quite antiques (which I couldn't afford), but I really liked the furniture pieces and even refinished a couple of them myself.
The saying then was "know your antiques, or know your antique dealer".
And I have followed that advice in my treatment: I do not know medicine, and I used my limited medical information, and education and experience, to try to identify a trustworthy RO, and then listened to his advice and decided to follow it.
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@animate
I do not know what was michael prescribed but when we discussed possible adjuvant RT with our RO he said "4 mos" of Lupron but when we asked for Orgovyx he said : " Oh , in that case 6 mos". I asked "why the difference" and he said "well Lupron lasts longer" which was to me indication that he probably meant to give my husband 2 X 3mos Lupron which is actually 6 mos but choose to say 4 mos since it sounds better lol. I mean, I might be wrong but I do not think that there are "one month" Lupron shots. (???)
According to some new studies, if cancer is low to intermediate risk, than ADT can be avoided but with high risk it should be included.