@denis76 mentioned "I've heard that if you treat cancer aggressively, it becomes aggressive itself."

Just the opposite, at least according to the latest thinking on metastatic prostate cancer. They used to treat it gently and incrementally: trying one treatment until it failed, then escalating to the next (somewhat stronger) one, etc.

These days, the leading-edge thinking is shock-and-awe: hit metastatic prostate cancer aggressively, up front, as many ways as you can, all at once. That's the philosophy underlying doublet and triplet therapy, MDT and PDRT, etc. Researchers at top cancer-treatment facilities like our host Mayo in the U.S., Princess Margaret and Sunnybrook in Toronto, etc., have been at the forefront of that movement, and so far, recent major phrase III trials have supported them.

@denis76
Must be the first time I have heard that. There have been Quite a few cases in this Mayo forum where people have gone aggressive as could be on their prostate cancer, and it helped.

People get triplet therapy to try to stop the cancer in its tracks and it works for a lot of people. It doesn’t work for everybody, Some prostate cancer cases can’t be stopped, not because people were too aggressive. It’s because their cancer is too aggressive..

I know someone that actually got triplet therapy when he didn’t have it recommended, but he wanted to be aggressive so that he didn’t have to worry about the future.

Normally, however, people get aggressive therapy because they have an aggressive case.