When I read through advanced situations like yours, as I read the details I make a list of diagnoses and therapies, as well as questions, in order to see where things are going and what’s next:
> what were your PSA & Gleason scores pre-primary treatment?
> what primary treatment did you have?
> what are the SUVmax scores (in the PSMA PET scan report) of the lesions in your lungs and lymph nodes?
> what is your testosterone level now?
Hormone therapies you’ve had: Zytiga (abiraterone), Xtandi (enzalutimide), & Zoladex (goserelin).
> since you have castration resistant prostate cancer (CRPC), is the Zoladex doing anything?
Isotope therapies you’ve had: Pluvicto (Lutetium-177)
> Other possible treatments: chemotherapy; immunotherapy; PARP (poly-ADP-ribose polymerase) inhibitor therapies.
There were combinations of drugs approved (by the FDA here in the U.S.) in 2023 for certain mCRPC patients:
> Olaparib plus abiraterone and prednisone or prednisolone for the treatment of patients with BRCA-positive mCRPC.
> The PARP inhibitor talazoparib in combination with enzalutamide (Xtandi) for patients with homologous recombination repair (HRR) gene–mutated mCRPC.
> The combination of niraparib and abiraterone acetate (Akeega) plus prednisone for patients with mCRPC with deleterious or suspected deleterious BRCA mutations.
And there are ongoing clinical trials with an isotope therapy that is more powerful than Pluvicto - it’s called Actinium-225.
As for other possible therapies in the pipeline, attached is a chart from a webinar I attended a couple of years ago showing both diagnostics and therapies that were in the pipeline at the time.
@brianjarvis
Thank you for all the information you provide.
Pre treatment: Gleason 9, PSA 8.5, 3Tb
1.treatment: Removal of prostate (Nov 2022). 5 weeks after treatment PSA<0.1, no evidence of cancer outside the prostate.
2. treatment: August 2023, bone pain left hip. PET scan showing 10 tumors in each lung, but only one confirmed with biopsi, one tumor left hip and multiple lymph tumors in pelvic area. September 2023 started first round out of six chemo theraphy rounds with three weeks interval. In addition zoladex injection every 3 months and Abiraterone.
3. treatment: June 2024, Radiation (13 repititions) of left hip just to be on the «safe» side.
4. treatment: August 2025, ct scan shows two tumors in my chest (25 mm and 19 mm). one with 2 mm clearance to my main arterie and one with 4 mm clearence to my heart. Changing from Abiraterone to Xtandi and continued with Zoladex. Cyber knife treatment of these two tumors.
5. treatment: March 2026, pet scan showing 20 tumors in each lung, the biggest around 12 mm. May 2026 first Pluvicto treatment out of possible 6. SUV values ranging between 6 and 13. Some tumors in the lungs are not lightening up.
I am not sure what my testosteron levels are.
I don’t know if the Zoladex have any effect or not. I am just following my onchologist’s advice.
In June 2025 I also did a couple of months with Ivermecton and Fenbendazole. No effect appart from extreem liver values.
Jakob