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The desire to have people get off ADT sooner does seem to have some really significant medical reasoning.

The thing is, it is really only applicable to those with low-grade prostate cancer. Those with Gleason nine or Even lower Gleason scores with aggressive cancer are still getting the 18 months to 24 months recommendation. I have yet to see recommendations to reduce the amount of ADT when the case is aggressive.

I know in my case with eight years on it and 31 months undetectable It would seem that I shouldn’t still be on it. When you bring BRCA2 into the picture, and the fact that I tried reducing Zytiga and it immediately resulted in a big rise in PSA, my oncologist doesn’t think I should get off of it. If I had any of the side effects other people do, I probably wouldn’t be on it, But it doesn’t really cause me any fatigue or other major issues so I continue on. It does start to worry me about the fact it may cause heart issues, since I was in the emergency room getting cardioverted a week and a half ago. I still have lots of skipped beats, much of the day. But that didn’t make any difference when I had surgery and they put me under. The anesthesiologist came to me before having the surgery and he was commenting about issues that could happen if I had an afib event while being operated on. I told him “I won’t have one” and he jokingly said, “you promise?”