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What's Next After SBRT and ADT?
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: 21 minutes ago | Replies (16)Comment receiving replies
Not to be a downer, but the number one proven way of preventing prostate cancer recurrence is to die of something else before it happens. That counts as treatment success in all of the statistics and why long-term studies only count prostate cancer specific deaths. Since most prostate cancer occurs in elderly men there are more deaths from other causes than prostate cancer in the 15 to 20 year longitudinal studies.
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Yes, Jim you are right. Deaths from other causes do slant the statistics when claims are made that ADT's help. There are even studies that show ADT's harm all men and help a few, but the studies fail to show the price we pay due to heart, muscle, and bone damage. The studies typically ignore the down sides of ADT treatment. They always seem to only mention hot flashes as the primary side effect while ignoring the life-threatening side effects.