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Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Sep 6 6:48pm | Replies (168)
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@pesquallie
This is just not true at all. I was on Lupron for six years, It didn’t destroy any organs in my body. For the first 2 1/2 years, it did keep me undetectable.
I think people will find that progression free survival (PFS) is extended by using ADT. I know in my case it gave me at least two extra years of overall survival.
I don’t think that 5% number applies to everybody.
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@jeffmarc
This is why I opted for ADT. The 5% number is not particularly scientific. I've seen it quoted by multiple doctors, articles and searches with no substantiation. Maybe I'm stubborn I do not see how it can apply to all Gleason 8 and 9 scores and patient ages.
Where I'm still not sure is how long to I will stay on ADT. Setting aside the percentage, do you get 90% of the potential benefit in 6 months? 1 year? 18 months? etc. For now, I've been told ADT affects PSA test so it will take a year to know if my treatments worked (still not sure what "worked" means).