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First MO visit - review NCCN w MO as part of the treatment discussion?
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Sep 22 12:42am | Replies (8)Comment receiving replies
A big question is, are you seeing a Genito urinary oncologist or are you just seeing a medical oncologist? The GU oncologists specialize in prostate cancer and Usually do the best job with treatment decisions.
The NCCCN guide guidelines can be difficult to interpret, You don’t give any information about your case so it’s really hard to say anything about what the NCCN would say about you.
Many of us have an idea, based on the diagnosis. what the requirements recommend.
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@jeffmarc Jeff, let me clarify - I'm seeing a Genitourinary Oncology for the first visit. The visit is at Fred Hutch in Seattle.
What I did was to map the biopsy and PSMA Pet results using AI to the NCCN guidelines and am going to try this approach to present my findings and use this as the basis for a discussion once he discusses possible treatment. If what I learned is not accurate then I'm fine w this - I'd rather present a POV on my use case, gauge feedback and then identify the path forward.
I'm a Gleason 9 (4+5) with cancer that has found its way into a few lymph nodes. Hence surgery is likely ruled out for now and likely combo treatment of Orgovix with Nubeqa is what the analysis is reporting back.
I welcome input from the group to help me consider other potential treatments I can discuss when I meet at Hutch on Tue...
Thx