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ADT vacation: When do you start treatment again?

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Here is what I find about the study being done that the OP referenced: ( using AI)
"The A-DREAM study (Alliance A032101 / NCT05241860) is a phase 2 clinical trial testing whether patients with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer who respond exceptionally well to continuous hormonal therapy can safely take a break from treatment".....it goes on to say both ADT and ARPI will be stopped...and:
"Treatment is restarted if the PSA level rises to 5 ng/mL or higher, if scans show the cancer growing, or if symptoms return."....I am considering the protocol in the LIBERTAS trial, take a break from Orgovyx but continue Nubeqa and see what happens. The one thing I wonder about in my case is: I have had no surgery or radiation, just ADT and ARPI for 6 months. Will the nubeqa be effective enough to stop my (hopefully) returning testosterone that PSA rises slowly enough that I get 6 months before I go back on ADT....IDK.

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My husband did firmagon and zytiga and then chemo a year ago, no radiation either. We'll wait on the next scan and if it continues to look good (shrinking) then he might pause
I think he'd want PSA tests monthly and as soon as it goes up he'll go back on ADT but will that be a month or two or half a year and what about survival rate then?
Will it shave off years of his life? But doing ADT and having no testosterone isn't good either so....